Lenovo LOQ 15 review: The best gaming laptop under $1,000

I’m always on Look for cheap gaming laptops, but let’s be real, many of them do. the Nvidia RTX 5060 The graphics card at least ensures that you’ll get decent 1080p performance, as long as the system receives the full 115W of power, and that’s exactly what Lenovo’s LOQ 15 laptop delivers.

It’s not the most beautiful laptop in the world, nor is it the most powerful. But for Gaming laptop Under $1000, it doesn’t get any better than this.

It’s not glamorous

Photo: Luke Larsen

The Lenovo LOQ 15 looks old, but I appreciate that it’s fairly modest. There’s nothing eye-catching or overly ambitious, without a hint of flashing RGB lighting. This gives a modern, albeit simple, aesthetic. Naturally, it’s quite thick and heavy, measuring 0.96 inches thick at its thickest point and weighing just over 5 pounds. You will do it Pay an additional $1000 For a thin and light gaming laptop with similar components, e.g Razer Blade 14. However, like many laptops of this size, it feels good and is sturdy.

Touchpads and keyboards are often hacked on cheap devices, but not here. The keyboard’s 1.5mm keys feel like they have a low actuation point, which combined with solid keycaps, gives them a very precise feel. It may take some getting used to, but I prefer it to the soft keys found on a lot of cheap gaming laptops. The layout is spacious, offering a 10-key number pad, media control, and full-size arrow keys. The only thing missing is a fingerprint reader or an infrared camera. The LOQ 15 doesn’t support Windows Hello, so you’ll have to rely on a password. It has a surprisingly large and responsive touchpad, the surface of which feels nice and smooth when you drag your finger across it. But the click is very loud.

LOQ 15 contains Several portsand none of them are on the left side. On the right, you get a USB-A port (5Gbps), a headphone jack, a USB-C port (10Gbps), and a webcam shutter switch. Most of the ports are on the back, between the large openings. This is where you get the power jack, which looks like USB-A, an Ethernet port, HDMI 2.1, and USB-A (5Gbps). These are convenient locations for these ports, especially if you don’t plan to move your laptop often.