Lenovo - LOQ 15.6" Gaming Laptop FHD - Intel Core i5-13420H with 8GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB - 1TB SSD - Storm Grey

Absolutely love this laptop! The material is very high quality and the keyboard feels good, the design is very nice and not over the top at all like most gaming laptops, and the glowing keys is a nice touch. The laptop runs extremely well right out of the box, it runs all of my games at the highest settings with no problems. I haven’t had to make any adjustments to the laptop and how it runs, but I do plan to upgrade ram to 16gb. However, I do see some lag during combat, and in cpu heavy games like planet zoo and prehistoric kingdom, putting the grass settings high can also cause a little lag. Otherwise it runs great, I haven’t needed to cap my FPS and have not seen too much frame dropping. The display is great, feels nice to use and looks pleasing to the eye, sometimes it’s a little dark for my liking when the game gets dark but otherwise no issue. I love that the screen comes pre-matted, another nice touch. My only issues with this device is that it runs VERY VERY hot. When playing games like path of titans and prehistoric kingdom the middle portion of the laptop gets extremely hot, which can be annoying. I also don’t like how far to the left the trackpad is, I find that sometimes when my hand is placed at a certain angle it will catch on the corner of the trackpad and change the camera angle ingame, which can be annoying. Along with that the battery life is not good at all, but let’s be real when are you going to play any games without a charger, so who cares. Overall though I’m very satisfied, I absolutely love it and would recommend it to a friend/buy it again if I could catch a sale. I got mine for around $700 with tax + fees, which was an amazing deal imo. The ram will need to be upgraded but otherwise the specs are great for the price. Attached are some screenshots I took ingame, I’m so impressed with the graphics! FPS is also great, everything runs so smooth. All in all a very good laptop if you can catch a sale! Consider buying a cooling pad and ram upgrade and you’re all set.

This is a work laptop joined to a domain. I needed win 11 pro...mine happened to show up with pro, not home, not sure about that one. It's heavier than the rest of the laptops around here, but based on the performance, it's not going to be an issue. Has big vents to purge heat which is nice, seems to keep it's temp under control. This will spend 80% of it's time plugged in, so I don't care about battery life, I'm focused on plugged in performance. It came to me with 8gb of ram (I've ordered 32gb to max it out- ddr5 sodimm 5600mhz is what you're looking for) but even with 8gb this thing HAULS! I have a couple year old gaming laptop at home, and a few year old build of a gaming tower, and this thing might smoke both of them. These new intel chips are impressive! Keyboard lighting is great, the bright setting is almost too bright in a dim room. I caught this as an open box excellent condition, while they were on sale for just over $600 which should be a crime, one of the best deals I may have ever gotten. I love the rear facing ports for usb, hdmi, network cable and power too, makes the desk so much cleaner! Yes, Windows 11 has some, "oddities" to it, and McAfee seems to be installed, but there isn't a way to uninstall.. a couple glitchy types of things, but it does come up, quickly, runs the office programs, VPN software, etc. Absolutely worth the money if it's on sale, and is more than likely worth full asking price.

Great entry level gaming laptop. The fans may be a little loud when ran in performance mode, but it also has great low power options for less intensive tasks. The case does scratch easy, so care is recommended. It also does poorly on battery life when in high performace mode, so gaming unplugged is definitely not recommended. I would also STRONGLY recommend upgrading to 16GB or 32GB of dual-channel RAM. It takes DDR5 4800, 5200, or 5600. Just be aware that the RAM speed is limited to 5200, so a 5600 card will be throttled down. With 16GB, I can play most games with ease, even on some higher settings. It also has an extra PCIe 4.0 x4 slot for storage (please read the Product Spec Reference before purchasing or installing upgrades). Overall, a solid buy!