Lenovo’s uber Legion series gaming rigs have marched into town
Lenovo is getting serious on gaming as they’ve rolled out their Legion series gaming rigs that come with 7th gen Intel core processors and NVIDIA GTX GPUS. The Legion series comes in two flavours – the Legion Y520 and the higher end Legion Y720.
Lenovo Legion Y520
The Y520 comes in a variety of configurations starting from RM3,299 for a 15.6-inch Full HD IPS display. The rig runs Windows 10 Home on an Intel Core i5-7300HQ 2.5GHz processor, packs 4GB RAM, a 1TB hard disk and has an Nvidia GeForce GTX1050 2GB GDDR5 processor.
The keyboard is backlit in a striking neon red and has a 1.7mm key travel distance for responsive keystrokes and also packs a pair of 2W Harman certified speakers with Dolby Audio premium tech.
The battery for the Y520 is a 45WHr 4-cell Li-Polymer battery that offers up to 4 hours or so of game time. Alternatively you can pony up a total of RM5,419 and get the fully tricked out version that packs an Intel Core i7-7700HQ 2.8GHz processor, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, 8GB RAM and your choice of either a 256GB M.2 PCIE or a 2TB hard disk. Fortunately, the whole affair is rather slim at 1-inch and still weighs a reasonable 2.4kg.
Lenovo Legion Y720
A step up is the heftier and significantly better specced Legion Y720. These beastly behemoths weigh in at 3.2kg apiece and come with a 15.6-inch crisp 4K display and can be tricked out with up to a 7th Gen Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor, up to 8GB DDR4 RAM and up to an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 graphics card. 
Keeping it all cool is a revamped thermal cooling design with rear air vents and dual rear metal fans. Storage is kept to a 1TB hard disk. On the audio front, it comes with two 2W JBL speakers and a beefy 3W Dolby Atmos subwoofer. The keyboard backlit itself has customisable multi-coloured backlighting and anti-ghosting tech. All this gaming goodness clocks in to RM6,099.
Both rigs are available for sale at Lenovo exclusive stores and Lenovo multi-brand stores nationwide. For more details swing by Lenovo’s official website at www3.lenovo.com/my/en/.