Lenovo Legion 7i Gen 6 First Impressions

[Makhaira]

Thought I'd whizz this post up in case it helps anyone else. I've just picked up one of these with a 11800H, 26gb,3080,1Tb SSD and a 2560x1600 screen.

In short - very pleased, but shame about the lights.

This is a big laptop, and definitely more of a desktop replacement. The PSU is the biggest brick I've ever seen (which I expected) and uses a proprietary connector (which I didn't). Brick gets warm verging on hot to the touch under load, but nothing worrying.

Screen is nice, good colours which helps as this will be used more for creative work than gaming.

Cooling system works very well.

I've added a second SSD - disassembly and install was very simple, and also gives immediate access to the fans if they need cleaning in the future.

Chassis is a nice slab of aluminium, looks and feels the part.

My only gripe is the RGB lighting. There's no reliable way to fully disable it, it will always revert to rainbows on standby or booting. For a machine that they market as an understated powerhouse it's a real shame - a Bios switch to disable it or lock to one colour (as a keyboard back-light) would have been excellent.

Really pleased overall though and glad I took the recommendation on it.

 

[MOOGLEYS]

When I had a 7 a while back I unplugged all the LED lights from the motherboard as you couldn’t stop the Rainbow effect or turn them off in the bios.

You might be able to do the same if they annoy you unless they have changed them since I had one.

 

[oweneades]

My wife's Legion 7 (Ryzen - same config but 5800H) stays on whatever mode the RGB was set to during the last usage. I immediately removed whatever the Corsair RGB software is though so only rely on the keyboard shortcuts (Fn + Space).
Note, the removal of the Corsair software also limited the non RGB mode to just a white/blue colour. Works perfectly as just a backlight and imo much nicer than the rainbow barf it can show otherwise.