Lenovo Legion Go SVIEW: He feels comfortable, plays badly

Lenovo Legion Go was supposed to change things. It was used to show the valve not the only one who could build a portable, portable and powerful games computer, you just need the correct design and the appropriate operating system.

I was fascinated When VALVE’s private steam surface designers told me These portable windows will double with the first third -party approved from Steamos portable in May. When I heard that Lenovo had bought an exclusive AMD chip that would help Steamos version $ 499, she felt enthusiastic about the real deck competitor.

But I am afraid that the chip is not.

I spent weeks to live with Legion Go S -Plowed by AMD’s Z2 Go, the same slide that is scheduled to appear in this opinion of $ 499. I used it with Windows and Bazzzite, which is the Linux distributions that resemble Steamos This eliminates many of the most annoying dribbles for Windows. I tested both against OLED vapor surface and The original Corps goesAs it is expected to find it between the two in terms of performance and the battery life. But this is not what I found.

Watt for watt, Z2 Go Chip cannot simply compete with the steam surface, which is much weaker than Z1 Extreme in portable last year. This is not forgiven at a price of $ 730, you will currently pay for the Windows version, and I will not be the first reference to say that. But with this least efficient and 55 -hour battery, I am concerned that the Legion is not a good option at all.

I Want To say that the Legion goes, “makes the first impression of the wonderful”, but Windows 11 still works with a terrible experience outside the box. I spent approximately 45 minutes waiting to install mandatory updates and reject them Dark -style Offers for Microsoft products that have no business on a portable game machine.

However, Go S is designed much better than The original Corps goesThat felt the flat -faced control units in my hands. The new mobile contains some of the best controls that I felt on a portable side, although its smooth texture can feel slightly slippery. You have gone with more aggressive texts to help me maintain 1.61 pounds.

But all its buttons feel accurate and safe, if the operators are longer than I love, and you feel a stick in the concave hall hall and the resistance to drifting, you feel the wonderful and smoothness to rotate it. The only weak control is the touch plate, which is very small, I prefer again and again to move the indicator simultaneously.

The sound is dramatically improved from the front speakers facing the front, and the larger fan moves more than the air while staying quieter than before. It is one of the fastest charging mobile devices so far-I recorded both USB 4 ports installed on the top 100 watts of USB-C PD energy during actual use. Cooling and charging are very good, and Lenovo allows you to 40 watts as it is connected or 33 watts on the battery alone.

But as you will see in my standard charts, the Z2 Go Simply is not on the same stadium as the “SEPHIROTH” chip from Steam Deck Old. In some games, the deck can not be overcome at all, even if you connect it and install it all the way.

Take Cyberpunk 2077. Through the steam surface, which runs at 15 Watt TDP, I can average 52 frames per second with a resolution of 720 pixels and take low settings on battery power alone. But even if you feed the Legion with 40 watts and connect it to the wall, the open world game works Slow down In 49 frames per second. This after A new collection of drivers; Shipping was much worse.

In other games, the Lenovo TDP movement can lead five, 10, or 15 watts to give it the convenient initiative on the deck. But this greatly affects the battery. In Lenovo’s default “performance” mode, I saw some games working smoothly as on the deck-but with a total system consumption of about 36 watts, draining a 55-hour portable battery within an hour and a half. The steam surface, which drains about 22 to 24 watts in the whole cavity, lasts two hours in the same softness.

I have good news about Steamos: When I installed Bazzzite, Which can be a decent inspection From what Steamos might seem and feel, I saw tire rates improving an average of 16 percent in early tests (minus ReturnWhich seems to hate Linux for some reason), and Bazzite is This is amazing Pure air breath after trying to use windows. But he still did not reach Steam Deck’s performance unless he sacrificed with more battery to get it. This works with a mobile voltage Like Asus Rog Ally X With a large battery 80 watts an hour, but not here.

Even if you raise the Z2 Go, its conditions “Turbo” do not approach any effective place like Z1 Extreme in the two ports last year. In my tests, the original Legion extends with Z1E anywhere in 15 percent to 40 percent comparison between windows and windows – a lot for hand, as modern games are struggling to reach smooth tire prices at all.

Legion Go S contains its jam: The IPS screen looks better 1920 x 1200 in less decisions than a previous panel of 2560 x 1600, and it works smoothly with lower frame rates now after it has a VRR to adjust the update rate anywhere between 48 Hz and 120 Herz on flying. I will not buy a leg of a leg of the leg of the leg of this reason alone.

And if you play primarily games that do not require performance, the Legion Go S is more efficient in low -power: by setting TDP, brightness, and low update rate, you managed to achieve a total of 7.5W battery only in Windows and 7W in Bazzzite while playing Magic sports poker game Patro. This should be from seven to eight hours of the battery life, and you should be able to reach the mark of four hours without only those tricks by setting the corps on a “quiet” 8W position. When I played easy to operate similarly Slaughter On the original Legion, withdraw all the stations, I couldn’t reach five hours.

But again, the steam surface works better. Simply reduce the rate of tires to 25 frames per second and brightness to 40 percent can result in more than eight hours Patro On the deck, I got four hours, 42 minutes Dave diver there. With Go The Legion, Dave did not get only 2.5 hours to hunt the sushi ingredients and detonate fake environmental scientists!

I am comfortable to say no one The Windows version of Lenovo Legion Go, which costs $ 730 in Best Buy. Even if the performance, the battery life and the price are not eligible, Windows is a stain on this device. Like other portable portable Windows she tested, she does not reliably sleep and wake up again: I have awakened several in the morning to find the hot system with fans spinning, although I was pressing the power button in the previous evening. I found it uncomfortable warm it pulled from my bag on the last day.

Even if you prefer Windows on Steamos, you can get a significantly better performance and a much better battery life than 800 dollars asus Rog ally xWhich deserves each extra penny, especially because it doubles The best Bazzzite machine that you can buy.

But even if you add Bazzite to Go Legion, it is not a steam surface, and I am not sure that this will change by May. If you are waiting for a $ 499 with Steamos, here is my advice: Just buy A 530 -dollar steam surface instead of.