Lenovo releases new budget gaming laptop in more countries with over 20% longer battery life than older model
Lenovo has finally released one of its latest budget gaming laptops in North America. To recap, the company started selling the LOQ Essential 15IRH11 less than a month ago in Canada and the US. However, the more unusual LOQ Essential 15IPH11 has not reached North America yet.
Instead, Lenovo has released the LOQ Essential 15ARP11 in both countries. For context, the 15-inch gaming laptop replaces the LOQ Essential 15ARP10E with newer Nvidia laptop GPUs. In North America's case, Lenovo is offering the LOQ Essential 15ARP11 with the GeForce RTX 5050, compared to the GeForce RTX 3050, GeForce RTX 3050A and GeForce RTX 4050, with which the LOQ Essential 15ARP10E (curr. $1,169 on Amazon) remains available.
According to our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5050 enjoys a 51% performance improvement over the GeForce RTX 4050, which extends to a 98% performance improvement when comparing the GeForce RTX 5050 against the GeForce RTX 3050. With that said, the LOQ Essential 15ARP11 complements its 65 W TGP GPU with the same Ryzen 7 170 processor from its predecessor.
Nonetheless, Lenovo claims that the 60 Wh battery inside the LOQ Essential 15ARP11 provides it with over 20% longer battery life than the LOQ Essential 15ARP10E. Moreover, Lenovo complements this 60 Wh battery with 16 GB of DDR5-4800 RAM, a 1 TB SSD and Bluetooth 5.3/Wi-Fi 6 connectivity. Also, the LOQ Essential 15ARP11 leverages a matte IPS display with a 1080p resolution, 300 nits peak brightness, a 144 Hz refresh rate and 100% sRGB colour space coverage.
The LOQ Essential 15ARP11 currently costs $1,892.99 in the US and CAD 2,630.99 in Canada. If the LOQ Essential 15IRH11 is anything to go by, then Lenovo may discount its new AMD-powered gaming laptop heavily in the coming weeks. Lenovo's PSREF website indicates that neither Ryzen 5 150 nor GeForce RTX 5060-powered SKUs will be making their way to North America, though.
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