Hands down, if you ask me what the best gaming laptop is, I’ll point you toward the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i. It’s speedy, reasonably priced, and it has a fantastic keyboard — just read our Lenovo Legion Pro 7i review. So, you can imagine my surprise when Lenovo told me that it was completely throwing out its winning formula to fully redesign the laptop for CES 2025.
It looks like the redesign could pay off, though.
With the laptop open, not much has changed. You’re still getting Lenovo’s excellent TrueStrike, as well as a slim number pad and trackpad that’s offset to the left of the key deck. This updated model features an OLED display, however. Previous Legion laptops have had serviceable gaming displays, but Lenovo is pushing into a premium tier of gaming laptops alongside the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 with the OLED panel.
It’s quite the panel, too. It’s a 16:10 panel with a WQXGA display — or 2,560 x 1,600. It also comes with a 240Hz refresh rate, and according to Lenovo, a sub-0.5ms response time. Lenovo also says the laptop claims up to 500 nits of peak brightness, which is fairly typical for OLED panels in laptops.
Alongside the new display, Lenovo redesigned the external chassis. One of the biggest changes is the back of the laptop, which no longer features any ports. On laptops like the Legion Pro 7i and Legion Pro 5, Lenovo previously placed the charging port, alongside large connectors like the HDMI port, on the back of the laptop. They’ve been moved to the sides now to provide better ventilation, Lenovo tells me. In their place, Lenovo now has a strip of RGB lighting that provides some back glow to the laptop.
Although the ports have moved, Lenovo is still giving users a lot of connectivity options. You get two USB-C ports, three USB-A ports, HDMI 2.1, and an Ethernet connection, along with Wi-Fi 7.
Under the hood, Lenovo says you’ll be able to pack in up to an Nvidia RTX 5090 laptop GPU, along with either a Core Ultra 9 275HX or Ryzen 9 9955HX. Similar to previous Legion laptops, Lenovo is offering the Legion Pro 7 and Legion Pro 5, the latter of which is less expensive with fewer options. Ther are both AMD and Intel options. Lenovo hasn’t revealed the specs of the Legion Pro 5 range yet, however.
To power this hardware, the Legion Pro 7i has a total of 250 watts that it shares between the CPU and GPU, while the Legion Pro 5 has access to 200W.
Lenovo is rolling out its new Legion range slowly. It starts with the Legion Pro 7i in March, which has an expected starting price of $2,399. The Legion Pro 5i arrives in May, starting at $1,499, while the Legion Pro 5 comes in June at $1,399.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.