Price When Reviewed

$1,014.99

Best Prices Today: Lenovo LOQ 16APH8

LOQ is a brand new model from Lenovo, which was launched within the spring. LOQ, pronounced “lock”, is primarily meant as a less expensive various for gaming than Lenovo’s Legion computer systems, in the identical method that, for instance, the Asus TUF sequence of merchandise stands as an inexpensive various to Asus ROG.

Are they a great purchase and do you get the precise gaming options and different good laptop computer qualities for the cash? To discover out, I took one in every of them in for testing. This 16-inch laptop computer combines a recent AMD Ryzen 5 processor with Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 graphics and a quick display screen in a strong construct. While it affords good efficiency, it’s a heavy machine with noisy followers and average battery life. Read on to study extra.

Looking for extra choices? Check out PCWorld’s roundup of the best laptops obtainable proper now.

Note: Prior to translation, this evaluate initially known as out the Lenovo LOQ’s excessive price ticket. However, for our US-based readers, we discovered a extra affordable configuration ($1,014.99) with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 GPU, an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS CPU, and 1TB of SSD storage.

Mattias Inghe

Lenovo LOQ 16: Design, keyboard

The Lenovo LOQ is a solidly constructed laptop computer with an outer shell in darkish gray or black plastic. It is something however skinny and light-weight, 2.6 cm thick and weighing 2.6 kg. Its angular design could make it uncomfortable to hold round an excessive amount of, however put it on a desk and also you’ll have a cushty and sensible laptop computer to work and play on. The display screen floor is raised by a few centimeters, which is all the time appreciated, even when it will increase the general dimension of the pc.

Some surfaces are easy just like the display screen lid and the within across the keyboard and others are rougher just like the underside, the body across the display screen, and a protruding again cowl. LOQ laptops additionally characteristic turquoise accent shade in massive, tough heatsinks going through straight backwards. A barely quirky design alternative, however one I don’t hate. There are not any LEDs within the chassis and the one RGB gentle within the pc is within the keyboard, which has 4 zones that may be individually shade managed.

The keyboard is fantastically well-built and offers prompt click on response except you favor the next keystroke top, which is kind of a slim profile. The mouse pad beneath is extremely typical and small, however with a cushty contact and good precision. You’ll most likely join an everyday mouse anyway for those who play video games.

In the middle on the again, you’ll discover a lot of the pc’s exterior connections: twin USB-A, HDMI, community port, and a proprietary energy adapter port. You may cost the battery through a USB-C port on the aspect, however you’ll have to purchase an adapter for that. Finally, there’s an additional USB-A on the alternative aspect. It’s an authorised set-up, however I’d have appreciated to see an additional USB-C. I linked wirelessly with Wi-Fi 6 with wonderful reception and bandwidth.

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Lenovo LOQ 16: Mixing AMD and Nvidia

The processor within the Lenovo LOQ is an AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS. With six high-clocked cores and Zen4 structure, this pc offers full of life efficiency for all the pieces from gaming to inventive work and heavy productiveness. However, it’s solely six cores, a bit underpowered as of late in a efficiency processor. Doing a number of demanding issues on the similar time like taking part in a difficult sport, recording your gameplay as video, and working a dwell stream and chat on a separate display screen generally is a problem. But like I stated, LOQ is meant to be for newbie avid gamers, so they could be content material to observe others stream or simply play video games.

For that, you additionally get a separate graphics card, however not an AMD Radeon, as you would possibly assume with an AMD Ryzen pc, however an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060. The Ryzen processor has no drawback interacting with it and the result’s definitely not dangerous. As lengthy as you don’t problem the pc with extremely settings and brutal ray tracing within the heaviest sport titles, you’ll get good fluidity and a pleasant image in most conditions.

At least nearly as good because the display screen permits. This is an IPS panel with a 1920×1200 pixel decision and a pleasantly matt floor that eliminates most reflections. But colours are noticeably mediocre, coming in at about half the srgb commonplace, which suggests loads of saturation and depth in colours are misplaced. With brightness at a middling 350 cd/m2 and no HDR help, it’s neither colourful nor dynamic.

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Lenovo LOQ 16: More quick than fairly

The Lenovo LOQ’s show has excessive distinction, not less than for an IPS. You get quick response occasions and the display screen can run at as much as 144 Hz frequency. G-sync help can also be one in every of its benefits. It’s merely a great display screen for fast-paced video games, however not as profitable for fancy ones. By default, the pc is about to 144Hz, however there’s additionally a 72Hz mode you possibly can choose to save lots of energy or one which routinely switches between 72Hz and 144Hz. I run nearly completely in that mode with no issues in any way.

The pc’s built-in audio system ship highly effective, detailed, high-quality sound, thanks partially to Nahimic’s audio software program. At average ranges, I get a great steadiness of bass, midrange, and treble, but when I push the quantity up, the treble can get annoyingly sharp.

A 1080p webcam sits above the display screen and produces pictures which might be sharp, but in addition very pale in shade, with some noise in darkish areas. If you’re eager to look good in a video assembly, it is perhaps price plugging in an exterior digicam. You additionally get a great built-in microphone that captures your voice with out issues.

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Lenovo LOQ 16: From quiet to heavy cooling

The Lenovo LOQ’d followers run now and again throughout regular on a regular basis browsing. There’s a gentle hiss within the background, but it surely doesn’t take an enormous processing load for them to heat up significantly. There could also be some noise that must be filtered out by the microphone or drowned out by the audio system. But for probably the most half, they’ll deal with it.

A beefy laptop computer with a robust processor and graphics normally doesn’t have good battery life, and I wouldn’t name it good in LOQ 16, both. If you’re employed on much less demanding stuff, dim the display screen brightness, and run the body price at 72 Hz or in dynamic mode, you possibly can work and surf on it for six to seven hours. I hoped for a greater consequence.

Bringing the laptop computer with the heavy energy adapter to the workplace is a little bit of a chore, too. There are related computer systems which have executed a greater job.

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Lenovo LOQ 16: No bloatware, however plenty of different stuff

You get a small assortment of additional packages pre-installed in your pc. Besides management software program for GeForce, AMD, and Nahimic, there are three packages specifically that you’ll want to regulate. Firstly, Lenovo Vantage, which collects some further settings that aren’t within the Windows settings menu. Things like fan modes, temperature monitoring, keyboard macros, community prioritization, and help and upkeep options. An annoying element right here is that it has some premium upkeep and safety features that this system desires you to purchase for between $350 and $550 per yr.

Secondly, Legion Arena, a menu that brings collectively put in video games from completely different digital shops in a central and handy menu. But that’s all this system does. Finally, McAfee LiveSafe comes with a 30-day trial, so bear in mind to both uninstall it or get a full subscription.

Lenovo LOQ 16: Is it price it?

The Lenovo LOQ 16 is an effective possibility for many avid gamers. It’s well-built and the processor, graphics, and display screen work effectively collectively for a great gaming expertise in addition to a great total expertise in between gaming periods. That stated, fan noise is loud beneath heavier masses and battery life is sub-par, however that’s not stunning as gaming laptops aren’t recognized for having nice battery life. If you possibly can dwell with these compromises, then this can be a good possibility for informal avid gamers.

Lenovo LOQ 16: Specifications

Product identify: Lenovo LOQ 16APH8 (82XU004VMX)
Tested: December 2023
Manufacturer: Lenovo
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS, 6 cores as much as 5 GHz
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060, 8 GB
Memory: 16GB ddr5
Storage: 512GB SSD
Displays: 16 inch matte IPS, 1920×1200 pixels, 144 Hz
Webcam: 1080p
Connections: Usb 3 gen 2 sort c with ShowPort, 2 pcs USB 3 gen 2 sort a, USB-a 2.0, gigabit ethernet lan, hdmi, headset
Wireless: Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1
Operating system: Windows 11 Home
Other: RGB keyboard
Noise degree: 0 – 41 dBa
Battery life: 1 hour 35 minutes (excessive load, full brightness), approx. 7 hours 20 minutes (low load, low brightness)
Size: 36 x 27.8 x 2.6 cm
Weight: 5.73 kilos
Recommended value: $1,014.99

Lenovo LOQ 16: Performance

Cinebench R23, CPU: 13,232 factors
Cinebench R23, CPU single core: 1,725 factors
Geekbench 6, CPU multi-core: 10,544 factors
Geekbench 6, CPU single core: 2,508 factors
Geekbench 6, GPU: 94,569 factors
3dmark Fire Strike (DirectX 11): 23,884 factors
3dmark Time Spy (DirectX 12): 10,258 factors
3dmark Port Royal (Ray Tracing): 5,944 factors
Disc, learn: as much as 4,331.29 MB/s
Disc, write: as much as 1,834.95 MB/s

This article was translated from Swedish to English and initially appeared on pcforalla.se.