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hey how's it going Dave QD here so this is Lenovo is legion y5 20 their mid tier gaming laptop and aesthetically I really like this laptop it feels nice to hold in your hand and fingerprints don't show up too much there's a faux carbon-fiber top and it's just black everywhere even the logo is pretty stuff most gaming laptops have some kind of red accents on the exterior this doesn't if you pull it in a lecture hall or even at work no one would really notice I also like the bronze or copper colored heatsink that you can see through the back it's a pretty muted vibe for this laptop until you open it and you realize there's red everywhere to be fair of all like the low to mid tier gaming laptops this has not that much but it's there the build quality is good it's on par with competitors in this price range there isn't anything that feels poorly built the chassis the screen the hinge is good too way better than the hinge on the older y 50 or Y 700 the display is one of the better-looking ones in the sub $1000 gaming laptop market 1080p color gamut is kinda mediocre and even after calibration color accuracy isn't the best but it's reasonably bright and viewing angles are good because it's an IPS panel bezels aren't too thick and the webcam looks like this the speakers are positioned nicely just below the screen and when you're playing games it sounds like they're projecting right into your ears the thing is these lack bass there's decent volume but the lower frequencies just aren't there even when I'm playing around with the EQ down at the keyboard we have a couple of different textures we have a brushed finished up here and then the rest of the deck is this kind of soft touch finish the keyboard has red accents and red backlighting the number pad on the right is a little different I don't think I've seen a layout like this before if you're a number pad pro or just use number pad often you'll probably find it strange the rest of the layout is good it's easy to type on keys have one point two millimeters of travel keystrokes feel a little soft but comfortable to use and I think most people will easily get used to this keyboard the trackpad itself kind of feels like glass but I'm pretty sure it's plastic it's just a nice smooth finish synaptics drivers but good tracking and gesture control are not built into the trackpad their dedicated buttons but they feel mediocre like the middle area acts like a lever so the closer you get to the middle the harder it is to click you can only press it down on the sides and I just don't love this trackpad the port selection is good there's Ethernet USB 2 and audio jack and on the other side we have HDMI a pair of USB threes an SD reader and a USB see there's no central 3 support but that's just the norm at this price point to get inside you flip it over remove some screws and open it up we have a good amount of upgradable components there's a 2 and a half inch drive bay and m2 slot that supports PCIe the configurations with SSD drives have pretty good speeds and if you pop off this metal shroud here you can access the RAM the batteries down here it's relatively small we're looking at a 45 watt hour battery and I'm getting a little less than four hours of regular use with the screen at 250 minutes if you're playing games is going to be closer to 45 minutes to an hour so I really wish they'd put a bigger battery in this thing but that's the compromise you got to make at this price point performance overall is good it uses KB Lake CPUs and a gtx 750ti even on the base model I'm running the upgraded i7 configuration but the gaming performance is going to be really similar between this and i-5 there's a more detailed video linked in the description but on the 1050 Ti and the 7700 HQ something lighter like overall actual hit 70 frames per second on ultra on high we're looking at almost 120 frames per second doom on Ultra will still float above 60 frames per second basically any of the more optimized shooters will play really nicely on the system something a bit more demanding like battlefield one you'll need to drop the graphics up too high again to that 60 frames per second zone but in general any of the current titles will play nicely on the 1050 Ti it's the best value GPU for gaming laptops right now if you're editing videos this is still a great choice especially because there's two drives in there but if you didn't color accurate work I would totally plug up an external monitor there is some thermal throttling if you push the device on benchmarks for long enough but I never notice it in any games even after hours of playing so it should be good surface temperature even onload stays comfortable to use there's also an extreme cooling mode and software to crank the fans up if you really want the best performance the heat pipe layout isn't my favorite it's an older style design like the heat from the GPU has to pass through the CPU along the pipe to get cooled the fans often spent on idle but it's still quiet unload it can get a little louder not too bad but if you hit that extreme fan mode I don't know when you'd actually use this but if you do it gets pretty noisy okay so with the Lenovo legion why 5:20 you're getting a device with a lot of plastic materials but with good build quality you're getting a decent IPS screen bright but weak color gamut keyboard is good trackpad is good buttons on the trackpad are not so good inside the KB Lake CPU options and the 1050 Ti deliver awesome performance for the dollar cooling is done reasonably well the RAM and the storage are all easy to access for future upgrades the battery is a little light we're looking at around four hours of averages so this laptop there's not much I dislike about it it's for this price point it's really good the one advantage that I would say that lenovo has over other competitors in this price point is that they often have pretty good sales right now you can get this thing for $850 that's what the 1050 Ti that's really good in my opinion now if you're trying to decide between this laptop and the three or four other laptops that are in this price range I will be doing a comparative review I wanted to do with sooner than later but there's a fourth laptop that came to mix so player four entered the game I will be doing that video shortly and then I'll be doing a comparative video for all of them hope you guys enjoyed this video sums be liked it subs we loved it see you guys next time