Laptop gamingispredominantly more expensive than desktop gaming as manufacturers try to stuff as many components as possible into a tiny laptop chassis, while also trying to take heat and battery life into account. It’s certainly not a replacement for desktop gaming, but gaming laptops' compact size does offer the ability to easily move your setup with a built-in screen included, which is space-saving if you do not have the room that’s needed for a large gaming rig.
If you want to enter the gaming laptop scene,Lenovo’s Legion Slim 5 is an absolute bargain at only $849. It combines Nvidia’s RTX 4060 mobile gaming graphics with the Ryzen 5 7640HS processor to power a 144Hz FHD 16-inch screen. It’s a competent machine for the price, and with the RTX 4060, it can run most games on sensible graphics settings.
For a rough idea of how this gaming laptop performs, you may take a peek at our review of the Lenovo Legion Slim 5. However, do bear in mind that the review unit we tested was a different model and had some alternate components. Still, even with more powerful components in our review laptop, we were impressed with how long the battery lasted and how affordable the Lenovo Legion Slim 5 was at launch, with a respectable MSRP. This is the lowest price I’ve seen this gaming laptop on sale for.
Lenovo Legion Slim 5 (RTX 4060):now $849 at Best Buy(was $1,349)Screen:15.6 Inch, 1920 x 1200 pixelRefresh:144 HzCPU:AMD Ryzen 5 7640HSGPU:Nvidia RTX 4060 8GBRAM:16GB DDR5SSD:512GB M.2 PCIe NVMeA slimline gaming laptop from Lenovo that packs an Nvidia RTX 4060 mobile GPU and pairs with a Ryzen 5 7640HS processor to power the 144Hz 16-inch screen. Other hardware specs include 16GB of DDR5 RAM and a small 512GB SSD.
The Lenovo Legion Slim 5 comes armed with enough power to play any game that’s currently released, with its RTX 4060 GPU able to take advantage of graphical enhancements like DLSS 3 to enhance framerates in resource-heavy games. The 16GB of 5600MHz DDR5 RAM is ample for most current gaming needs and also fine for general browsing and applications. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for the 512GB SSD, which is the bare minimum size for operating an OS and a small games library. For example, the latestCall of Duty: Black Ops 6title needs around 300GB of space for a full install. But for just $849, it’s still great value for what you get.
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Stewart Bendle is a deals and coupon writer at Tom’s Hardware. A firm believer in “Bang for the buck” Stewart likes to research the best prices and coupon codes for hardware and build PCs that have a great price for performance ratio.
