Lenovo has sat in the top spot of our best gaming laptop guide for well over a year now—the Legion Pro 7i Gen 8 delivering a superb mix of performance, size and price. I had expected similar results from the Legion Pro 5i Gen 9. Instead, I'm feeling miffed by the new Gen 9 model. With impressive gaming performance, you'd think I'd be all over this thing and yet I can't get over its lacklustre memory configuration and low storage capacity.
The Pro 5i Gen 9 comes equipped with one of the latest Intel Core processors, the Core i7 14650HX. It's a mobile version of Raptor Lake, the same architecture currently leading the way on desktop for Intel. A 24-thread processor, divided into eight P-cores (16 threads with Hyper-Threading) and eight E-cores, that's a lot of processing power for what is ostensibly a gaming laptop on the more affordable end of the market.
