Lenovo reveals pricing for new 15-inch gaming laptop before global release
Just over a week has passed since Lenovo unveiled its first gaming laptop powered exclusively by Intel's Panther Lake architecture. To recap, the company already sells the Legion 7a 15ASH11 globally with the Radeon 8060S iGPU. Rivalling the Asus TUF Gaming A14 FA401EA (curr. $2,199 on Amazon), the Legion 7a 15ASH11 is a firmly premium affair with a hefty price tag to match.
For instance, the Legion 7a 15ASH11 now starts at $1,900, £2,179 and €2,109-€2,500 in the US, UK and the Eurozone, respectively. By contrast, Lenovo has now confirmed that the LOQ Essential 15IPH11 will start at €1,599 (~$1,866). Seemingly, this price includes 19% VAT. Hence, Eurozone pricing effectively converts to $1,565 at current exchange rates.
Nonetheless, this pricing is high for a laptop with a 1200p and 300-nit IPS display, even if that display peaks at a 165 Hz refresh rate. Additionally, the LOQ Essential 15IPH11 lacks any system lighting usually found on gaming laptops, and is constructed entirely from plastic. Only a 60 Wh battery is present too; somehow, the laptop still weighs 2.1 kg, though.
The Core Ultra X7 358H and its Arc B390 iGPU will provide the LOQ Essential 15IPH11 with limited graphics performance too, even with a 65 W TDP. According to our benchmarks, the Arc B390 outperforms the GeForce RTX 3050 (4 GB) found in the similar LOQ Essential 15IRH11. However, the Panther Lake-based iGPU comes well short of the Radeon 8050S, let alone the Radeon 8060S.
The Core Ultra X7 358H does provide the LOQ Essential 15IPH11 with better power efficiency than most budget gaming laptops, though. To that end, Lenovo claims that the 15-inch laptop lasts 12 hours in MobileMark 30 at 250 nits and 19 hours when streaming locally stored 1080p videos at 150 nits. The LOQ Essential 15IPH11 will go on sale in Europe at the end of September.
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Lenovo (via press release)
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