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Laptop Lookout: Lenovo Legion Revamped
Laptops are the cornerstone of our computing resources in this day and age. We need power, robust performance and ultimate portability for every aspect of our daily lives. This is a guide and insight to the best Laptops on the market and today I’m here to talk about the Revamped Lenovo Legion Gaming Laptop.

The Great
- Nice Responsive Keypad and Trackpad
- Solid Performance
- Great FPS
- Premium Graphics and Audio & Optional Dual Drive Storage
The Conclusion

Lenovo’s new approach to gaming focuses on entry and mid-tier consumers looking to play games without breaking the bank. The new Legion series laptops meets minimum specks for a 2018 gaming laptop and it can deliver great frame rates at medium settings for even the most demanding games. While they’re all built for gaming but designed for everyday use.

Lenovo has announced four new Lenovo Legion gaming laptops. There’s the $929.99, 15-inch Legion Y530 available in June, and the $959.99 Y7000 available in August. There’s also the 15 and 17-inch Y730s available in September starting at $1,179,99 and $1,249. Today we will talk about their strengths, weakness and the difference between

Breakdown The Lenovo Legion

The first two Lenovo Legions, the Legion Y730 and Y530 laptops, feature skinny and slight bezel screens, dual-chamber cooling, and up to Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1050Ti GPU. Wait, what? That is a low end gaming GPU.. That wont run some of the top games out now, let alone whats coming out. Eighth-gen Intel Core i7 processors, but we have 9th gen available. An optional 144Hz full HD IPS display is offered on the Y530, while the Y730’s noteworthy feature is its Corsair iCUE RGB backlit keyboard (which features six macro “Y” keys).Each of Lenovo’s new systems feature top and side bezels that are 0.26-inches thin, allowing for viewers to enjoy more of the laptop’s display.

The Y530 laptop, which will be a Best Buy exclusive when it’s available in June for $930, is noticeably smaller than its predecessor, and loses the red accents from before. Instead, you’ll find an all-black lid with a Legion logo, which some might find more attractive, although others might call boring.

Lenovo partnered with Corsair to bring credibility to its RGB lighting scheme for the Lenovo Legion Y730 laptops. The RGB, 16MM-color backlit keyboard, vent lighting, and underlighting are all controllable via Corsair’s iCUE software. Good news is if you like the out of the box generic look for the Legion Y530 and Legion Y7000, you can turn them all off.

Quick Spec Look
- CPU: 8th-gen Intel Core i5-8300H or Core i7-8750H
- Memory: Up to 32GB DDR4, or you can get up to 8GB of that and 8GB of Corsair Overclocked Memory.
- Display: All displays will be FHD (1920×1080) anti-glare IPS with a maximum brightness of 300 nits, with the choice of either 60Hz or 144Hz refresh rates.
- GPU: Choice of Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 or GTX 1050 Ti. These are Nvidia’s midrange discrete GPUs.
- Storage: Choices of 128GB-512GB PCIe NVMe SSDs and 1TB or 2TB hard drives.
- Connectivity: Lenovo arrayed most of the ports on the back of the Legion Y730. There you’ll find (as seen in the photo below, left to right) miniDisplayPort, full HDMI, USB 3.1 Type A, RJ-45 ethernet, another USB 3.1 Type A, the power port, and a lock port. On the left side you’ll find a Thunderbolt port and an audio jack, and on the right side you’ll find a third USB 3.1 type-A port.
June 12, 2018
Laptop Lookout: Alienware 17 R5
Alienware has a new gaming laptop for their 17 line. They have spared no expense, except yours of course, to develop a mind boggling, earth shattering, nay I say completely volatile piece of gaming tech here. Alienware threw everything it could at the Alienware 17 R5 , cramming a 6-core Intel Core i9 processor in there, along with 32GB of RAM, and a GTX 1080 graphics card. It’s certainly outfitted like a gaming desktop, so here we go.

The Great
- Excellent build quality
- High refresh rate display
- Variety of configuration options
- Exceptional gaming performance
- Tobii Eye Tracker
- 13 customizable lighting zones
- High Quality Audio
The Not
- Heavy and large
- Mediocre 3 hour battery life
- CPU performance fails to competitors
The Conclusion

Its Bad, bad bad to the bone. Its all you can ask for in a gaming laptop. It has the power, the speed, the sound and the look. Not to mention a functioning eye tracking for aiming.. Moderatly priced and highly impressive fps in all test I’ve done, including a stunning 93 fps in Battlefront.

Whats New With The Alienware 17 R5

For the Alienware 17 R5, Alienware made design modifications to the exterior design, creating a slimmer chassis with even more customized lighting opportunities. Completely revamped the cooling and audio systems make for quieter fans and louder speakers. Then did an overhaul of the Alienware Command Center software making it much easier to customizing your lighting and overclocking your processor and graphics card. Add in a powerful Intel 8th Gen Core i9 processor that can be overclocked to 5 GHz and and a factory overclocked Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 GPU plus speedy SSD and a brilliant QHD screen, you have the premier gaming laptop. The Alienware 17 RS is also the first in the series to implement Intel’s new 2.9-GHz, 8th Gen Core i9-8950HK processor with a whopping 32GB of RAM, and thanks to the Alien Command Center, you can overclock this bad boy to a smoking 5 GHz.

Design

Alienware added even more LED zones to the Laptop, while making the system slimmer with its new hinge-forward design. There are now 13 LED zones you can control from the control center. Once open you find yourself staring at a full-size traditional keyboard glowing with stunning backlights. The keyboard and a massive touchpad glow in excitement. The 17.3-inch panel sits above the glossy plastic strip housing the Tobii Eye Tracker.

Quick Speck Look
- CPU Intel Core i9-8950HK @ 2.9GHz
- Operating System Windows 10 Home
- RAM 32GB
- Hard Drive Size 256GB SSD
- Hard Drive Type PCIe m.2 SSD
- Secondary Hard Drive Size 1TB
- Secondary Hard Drive Speed 7,200rpm
- Display Size 17.3
- Highest Available Resolution 2560 x 1440
- Native Resolution N/A
- Graphics Card Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 (8GB GDDR5X)
- Video Memory 8GB
- Wi-Fi 802.11ac
- Wi-Fi Model Killer 1435 802.11ac 2×2 WiFi
- Bluetooth Bluetooth 4.1
- Touchpad Size 4.0 x 2.1
- USB Ports 4
- Warranty/Support 1-year
- Size 16.7 x 13.1 x 1.2 inches
- Weight 9.77 pounds
The Final Thought

One Word.. Fantabulous. Its not the gaming laptop we needed but its the laptop we deserve. Eye tracking aiming is game changing for me, makes battlefront so much more fun..
June 11, 2018
Laptop Lookout: Dell G3 15 Gaming Laptop
Laptops are the cornerstone of our computing resources in this day and age. We need power, robust performance and ultimate portability for every aspect of our daily lives. This is a guide and insight to the best Laptops on the market and today I’m here to talk about the Dell G3 15 Gaming Laptop. This is a Thin ultra-portable 15.6-inch laptop with a thin bezel gaming display.. Its a complete laptop solution with gaming at a affordable cost in mind.

The Great
- Slim, subtle design
- Dell Product Support
- Excellent performance
- Red Backlight Option
The Not
- Terrible TouchPad
- Tacky Keyboard
- Cheap Plastic Look and Feel
The Conclusion

Dell’s budget gaming laptops get a line of their own, some redesigns and Intel Core eighth-generation options. For the price its quite average for gaming laptop.

Dell’s G-series line is the new laptops intended to be Dell’s new affordable gaming machines. At 0.5 inches thick, the Dell G3 15 Gaming Laptop is Dell’s thinnest 15-inch gaming oriented laptop. While it still has some Inspiron lingering design, core and feel in it, it also has a unique youthful appeal with stripes decals and faux carbon fiber patterns. It also packs Intel’s new Core i7 H-series six-core CPU, which sits at the top of Intel’s CPU hierarchy.

Its got the goods, 8th Gen Intel® hex-core processors provide responsive, powerful performance whether you’re gaming, streaming videos, or working on CPU-intensive projects. With Dual fans let you experience uninterrupted gaming while your system stays cool and Dual drives with SSD options including NVMe PCIe ensure faster performance and better reliability, and a new Ethernet port supports full 100/1000 Gigabit connections for quick performance.

Power?

There are configuration options and with a price this series now goes up to the six-core i7s and as high as a Core i9 in the top-end G7. One of the important ways they remain different from Dell’s gaming-focused Alienware brand is the GPU options, which run only from a Nvidia GTX 1050 to a GTX 1060 Max-Q for the G models.

Quick Spec Look
- eighth-generation mobile Core i-series processors
- Installed Size 16 GB, 1x16GB, DDR4, 2666MHz
- Capacity 256 GB Solid State Drive (Boot) + 1TB 5400RPM Hard Drive (Storage)
- Clock Speed 4.1 GHz
- Diagonal Size 15.6 -inch FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS Anti-Glare LED-Backlit Display
- OS Provided: Type Windows 10 Home 64bit English
- Graphics Processor NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with 4GB GDDR5 graphics memory
The Dell G3 15 Gaming Laptop Design

The G3 looks a lot more like the latest mainstream Inspirons, with touches like the patterned keyboard surround and notably slim profile for a gaming system. One nice design feature that you get with the Dell G3 15 Gaming Laptop is something you dont typically get with a budget laptop. LED Backlighting. Its simple and always impressive but the G3’s backlight comes in blue and red.

The Final Thought

Despite its cheap design, the Dell G3 15 Gaming Laptop is one of the best and powerful bangs for the buck. Starting at $750 with a I7 Processor you are really getting the best deal available for this kind of power. The track-pad is an issue but none of us game with a track-pad anyway, add a good wireless gaming mouse an enjoy the savings.
June 10, 2018