Lenovo Legion 5 Pro (16-inch, 2022)

Strong performance for the price ; Quality build and port selection ; Terrific keyboard ; Webcam privacy shutter and USB-C or DC charging

Display quality and battery life are just decent ; Bulky and heavy

The Lenovo Legion Pro 5 Gen 8 picks just the right things to trim from its pricier sibling to cut costs while still offering a great option for gamers hunting for value.

Solid gaming and productivity performance ; Handsome 16-inch screen with 165Hz refresh ; Mostly comfortable keyboard

A tad overweight, with enormous power brick ; Noisy cooling fans ; No SD or microSD card slot

It's not the standout that the Legion 7 is, but Lenovo's Legion 5 Pro (the AMD Ryzen sibling of the Intel Core Legion 5i Pro) is an excellent mid-priced gaming laptop.

Stellar build quality ; Good all-around performance ; Less costly than the competition

Lousy speaker sound quality ; 512GB of starting storage is too low ; Annoying bloatware

Lenovo’s biggest changes for the 2022 Legion 5 Pro are inside of it. It features the latest Intel 12th Gen processors and up to the RTX 3070 Ti. It also brings a bigger price while ignoring some annoyances, like lousy speakers.

instead. An extra $400 or so (at time of writing) gets you stronger general performance, a smidge more battery life, twice as much RAM, and a 240Hz display (albeit at 1440p). That extra oomph is worth the relatively reasonable cost; 32GB of RAM is...

premium build quality and updated design, available in gray or white ; good screen, inputs and IO ; excellent performance across the board ; majorly faster in CPU loads than the 2021 model, and a slight boost in GPU performance ; serviceable and...

full-size laptop with a bulky 300W charger ; noisy fans and high GPU temperatures on the Performance profile ; poor audio and camera quality, no biometrics ; more expensive than the 2021 generations