Lenovo LOQ 2024, Intel Core i5-13450HX, 13th Gen, NVIDIA RTX 4050-6GB, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, FHD 144Hz, 15.6″/39.6cm, Windows 11, MS Office 21,…

worst product don’t even consider purchasing it

i have to change the parts of this 3 times and 9-10 times have to connect with the lenovo service

So this is my second gaming laptop, first one being the Legion Y520 (i5 7th gen, GTX 1050). That laptop lasted 6 years for me and is currently being used by my sister.

Few reasons why I opted for this laptop in particular:
CPU and GPU combination – Ryzen 7 5800H, RTX 3060 @90W TDP
Display – 165Hz, 100% SRGB
Price: Got it for 89,990

Originally I wanted the MSI Alpha 15 Advantage edition that has the same CPU, but comes with 8GB Radeon 6600M. It was slightly expensive and delivery by Flipkart was quite slow for my address, so I didn’t go for it. There were 2 other options from MSI that have RTX 3060 and shipped with i7 CPU, but they did not have color accurate displays (45% color gamut). For these reasons Ideapad gaming 3 became the perfect pick for me and I am impressed with my purchase. Boot times are of course great and games load significantly fast, of course. I am planning to add a 1TB SSD and additional 16GB RAM later which will improve the performance even further!

Following games have been tested by me so far on ultra to medium settings:
World of Warships – average FPS 100-120 @ ultra settings
Witcher 3 – 60 FPS on ultra settings. For some reason the FPS for this game are locked at 60
A Plague Tale: Innocence – 90-120 FPS on medium to ultra settings
Forza Horizon 4 – did not have FPS enable at that time so could not see the actual FPS, but it looked great so I’ll assume it was in the range mentioned above

I am planning to try out more games and will update my review accordingly. But so far I am happy with my purchase and can recommend this laptop to future buyers with confidence. Trackpad is quite awesome too, don’t know though which driver it is using. Keyboard is great as well, but I use an external keyboard anyway so it does not matter to me. Speakers are satisfactory. They are placed at the bottom and deliver good sound both in terms of quality and loudness.

The device is surprisingly lightweight which is a good thing! Build quality could have been better, but it is definitely not fragile. Keyboard is white backlit only, so no RGB lighting available. I am not into the fancy RGB lighting so it does not bother me at all. I am also thankful that it does not come with red lighting on the keyboard!

Thank you Amazon for quick delivery (16 hours) and thank you Lenovo for this good product.

Edit: I forgot the mention that I played for three hours straight and did not experience any kind of performance throttling. Boot up is almost instant which is expected. Note that it comes with 1x 16GB RAM and my laptop came with WD SN530 SSD. You have one more slot for RAM and SSD each and I’ve read somewhere that the laptop can support NVMe Gen 4 SSDs, but not sure whether that’s true.

Edit:
DONT BE FOOLED BY 2 RAM SLOTS

IT CAN TAKE A MAX IF 16GB RAM. SO THE ONLY UPGRADE POSSIBLE FOR THE 1x16GB MODEL IS CHANGING IT TO DUAL CHANNEL 2x8GB.

Found out the hard and sad way, also confirmed with Lenovo.

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The other review covers it very well, it will run whatever you throw at it.

I left Red Dead Redemption 2 running for 20 hours straight. resumed playing still ran like butter.

It comes with 2nd NVME slot but no screw so you’ll have to procure it separately.

Others count lack of RGB as a con, but I’ll say White looks professional, wich goes with the overall look of the laptop, making it suitable for use in professional environments if you don’t want everyone around you knowing you’re a gamer.

not being able to charge via the USB C is understandable with 170 W in the adaptor.

90W TDP is boost TPG it will show lower but boosts it to 90W. remains cool without throttling even for longer heavy workloads, hint 20hours of RDR2.

I recommend buying a 2nd NVME along with your purchase as you’ll run out of 500 gigs quick.
The included disk is a WD BLue SN530, not the best but good performance, not something you’ll find slow in your daily usage unless your work is copying > 200 gig everyday.

2Gig of the 16GB included ram go to VRAM .

I bought the 24gb ram, i7 13th nvidia 4050 version. The performance is stellar. I enabled windows ultimate performance in power management options from cmd. I also updated the bios using Lenovo website as the system was prompting the same. The gaming is butter smooth. Temperature management is also very good. I take breaks between 1.5 hour rounds by shutting off the computer when the fan noise peaks. Easily a powerhorse. Lenovo vantage is also very useful in managing power requirements and fan noise. Be sure to remove the paper cover on the charger and keep the charger standing on the long edge/side. Being a laptop it is also advisable to play on full charge with plugged on set up. Keyboard and trackpad are also very very professional. Display is ok ok. For 94000 this is a good gaming plus professional laptop.