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Hey where did you buy from?
There’s a 30% Christmas sale listed on Lenovo’s website but when you look at the Go it just says “new options available” and you can’t actually buy one….
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There’s a 30% Christmas sale listed on Lenovo’s website but when you look at the Go it just says “new options available” and you can’t actually buy one….
Thanks for the update Rroff. This is going to be an insta purchase for me. What are we thinking the price will be? I believe minimum £1k.
I actually really appreciate the reduced resolution, it will help with performance significantly when paired with the Z2 Extreme. I genuinely cannot differentiate between the two resolutions on a small screen.
I actually really appreciate the reduced resolution, it will help with performance significantly when paired with the Z2 Extreme. I genuinely cannot differentiate between the two resolutions on a small screen.
Surely you would prefer higher resolution with the option of being able to drop it like the original Legion Go?
Fair point. I'm not sure about how a dropped down resolution on a higher resolution screen looks compared to a native lower resolution? I would expect it looks a little blurry?
I'm playing all games on the Rog ally which I think looks fantastic. Added the additional support from the various functions from the drivers and software to upscale smartly, genuinely I cannot differentiate. Perhaps I'm just getting too old.
I'm playing all games on the Rog ally which I think looks fantastic. Added the additional support from the various functions from the drivers and software to upscale smartly, genuinely I cannot differentiate. Perhaps I'm just getting too old.
On the existing Go the native res is 2560x1600 with a panel which can do 1280x800 with perfect pixel scaling - no blurring or softening of the image and 1280x800 still works well in a lot of games especially in the realm of handhelds while being easier to drive. 1920x1080 that is more common on handhelds is obviously harder to drive and doesn't reduce down to a useful resolution and from the "slight" resolution decrease I assume they mean 2560x1440 which personally I think an odd move as newer games can be less than ideal on 1280x720 but still work reasonably well on 1280x800.
Likewise if using the device in tablet kind of usage - Windows works pretty well at 1280x800 still (or 800x1280 if using it portrait) while 720p you start to encounter screen estate issues with newer software.
The newer hardware SoC will increase the ability to run things at 1920x1080 though.
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I put Bazzite on my Legion Go this week just to try, and it seemed alright. Then I left the house and tried to play Balatro without internet, and it just wouldn't load, gave it hotspot and it downloaded some steam tools but still didn't open.
Restarted, which took what seemed like a thousand years. Still wouldn't actually load the game. Not the best gaming experience on-the-go.
Will be on Windows 10 tomorrow.
Restarted, which took what seemed like a thousand years. Still wouldn't actually load the game. Not the best gaming experience on-the-go.
Will be on Windows 10 tomorrow.
I put Bazzite on my Legion Go this week just to try, and it seemed alright. Then I left the house and tried to play Balatro without internet, and it just wouldn't load, gave it hotspot and it downloaded some steam tools but still didn't open.
Restarted, which took what seemed like a thousand years. Still wouldn't actually load the game. Not the best gaming experience on-the-go.
Will be on Windows 10 tomorrow.
You're going to install Windows 10 on it?
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Yeah, I’m no fan of Windows 11. Bazzite seemed ok, but I can’t tolerate any hassle like I had today. I need it to be ready to game, and actually launch the game (not just pretend it is).
I don’t care about lack of support in a few months. I only run games on this. Defender was disabled previously.
I don’t care about lack of support in a few months. I only run games on this. Defender was disabled previously.
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Do you know what it is that's stopping you using the Go so much?
I'd think about this first, because no matter what the "new shiny stuff" part of the brain tells you. If you don't use the current Go, you won't use the next one.
TBH, it is absolutely massive for carrying around out of the house. Yesterday was the first day in a while I'd taken it out, and it took up most of my bag in that chunky case.
I'd think about this first, because no matter what the "new shiny stuff" part of the brain tells you. If you don't use the current Go, you won't use the next one.
TBH, it is absolutely massive for carrying around out of the house. Yesterday was the first day in a while I'd taken it out, and it took up most of my bag in that chunky case.
For me it replaces lugging around a laptop a lot of the time - I probably use mine like 10-20% of the time for handheld gaming and a lot more either for on the go gaming (flip stand out with either a keyboard and mouse or external controller and/or plugged into a bigger screen) or as a replacement for a Windows tablet, laptop or even desktop - the CPU is absurdly overpowered relative to the GPU for gaming uses but very handy for even relatively heavy desktop use.
I'm a bit confused on these whether the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has Zen4C cores or not - possibly why I'm not seeing any effect of C cores in use - AMD says no and the 7940 supposedly doesn't either but there is a dieshot floating around of the Z1 Extreme with 4x Zen4, 4x Zen4C which is what several reviewers have claimed to be the case.
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Still using my Legion GO with an EGPU and its ace, plays everything just fine.
Want to know something interesting? - I ran Indiana Jones on a 1080GTX doing this.......Yep, it's true, clearly the game doesn't "need" ray tracing.......it apparently only bull**** needs it to sell graphics cards..........I'm thinking it checked the AMD built in chip that DOES support ray tracing, flagged it as ok to run, then it DEFO ran on the EGPU as that was being used when checked with GPUZ.
Interesting.
It ran at around 50-60fps lowish settings.
I now have a 3070 EGPU for this which has ray tracing anyway
Want to know something interesting? - I ran Indiana Jones on a 1080GTX doing this.......Yep, it's true, clearly the game doesn't "need" ray tracing.......it apparently only bull**** needs it to sell graphics cards..........I'm thinking it checked the AMD built in chip that DOES support ray tracing, flagged it as ok to run, then it DEFO ran on the EGPU as that was being used when checked with GPUZ.
Interesting.
It ran at around 50-60fps lowish settings.
I now have a 3070 EGPU for this which has ray tracing anyway
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I've been pleasantly surprised with the Black Myth Wukong experience on it (ignoring the cooling fans attempts to blast the device in to orbit ). I really thought it would be completely unplayable, but it isn't. I keep thinking about putting mine in to get the RAM chips swapped to make it 32GB. Lenovo keep putting out BIOS updates for it still, and I know it's not as straightforward for flashing once this is done.
). I really thought it would be completely unplayable, but it isn't. I keep thinking about putting mine in to get the RAM chips swapped to make it 32GB. Lenovo keep putting out BIOS updates for it still, and I know it's not as straightforward for flashing once this is done.
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I've been pleasantly surprised with the Black Myth Wukong experience on it (ignoring the cooling fans attempts to blast the device in to orbit
Yeah needs a custom updated BIOS every time
or I'd probably upgrade mine myself if it was a one and done job.
Unfortunately I think that's one of those questions only you can answer. It has enough performance for me but perhaps if Emlyn or Rroff didn't have other rigs and wanted to use a Go as their main PC they would also get an external GPU. Sorry I'm not more help.
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For me, I've always thought the eGPU docks looked massive, and expensive. But I've only ever searched "egpu" as no idea what people actually buy in that space.
Some of the little portable 7600XT ones look cool, but also expensive for what they are.
If I was using the Go as my primary PC, I'd definitely look at getting more GPU power though. I seem to remember RetroGameCorps saying he needed to side load AMD drivers for an AMD external GPU, as the Lenovo ones did not work.
Some of the little portable 7600XT ones look cool, but also expensive for what they are.
If I was using the Go as my primary PC, I'd definitely look at getting more GPU power though. I seem to remember RetroGameCorps saying he needed to side load AMD drivers for an AMD external GPU, as the Lenovo ones did not work.