Lenovo Legion Slim 5
I recently purchased a Lenovo Legion Series laptop to support many of the projects I plan to take on. My old laptop was fine for micro electronics, basic tasks, and even managed to run Roblox Studio, but it was so old I couldn’t run Blender. So, it was time to spend some money and upgrade.
Since a lot of what I’m planning to focus on involves 3D and AI development, plus I wanted a laptop as close to $1,000 as I could get, I needed to plan my purchase carefully.
NVIDIA Studio is a core part of my future exploration, so I aimed for the highest level GeForce RTX GPU I could get for a reasonable price. Obviously the rest of the laptop had to be decent all around. What’s the point of getting a powerful graphics card when you have a crappy screen?
I knew Lenovo makes a solid PC and they happened to have the Lenovo – Legion Slim 5 16″ Gaming Laptop WQXGA – Ryzen 7 7840HS with 16GB Memory – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB – 512GB SSD – Storm Grey on sale for $1,149.00 at BestBuy, normally $1,529.00. It was the perfect balance of quality and power and landed close enough to my budget that I made the jump!
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 GPU with 8GB vRAM
The GeForce RTX 4060 wasn’t the RTX 4090 I was hoping for to support training models like SDXL, but it does everything else! It even comes in at the low end of NVIDIA’s Creative Maestro GPU scale, which I felt met my needs.
Great Job, Lenovo!!
I have to say, I LOVE THIS LAPTOP! It’s built like a sleek tank, handles huge 3D scenes in Roblox Studio with no problem, and I love how the keys light up.
I will be able to generate images with a local build of SDXL 1.0 in 20-30 seconds, once I can separate from Roblox long enough to get that set up.
Add becoming a “Creative Maestro” in NVIDIA Studio, I’ve got quite the project backlog going!
Performance Specs
In case you’re interested, Ben G. Kaiser did this great video and gets deep into this killer PC with performance specs and even examples of camera, audio, and key quality.
