The extremely flat 15, 6-inch Lenovo Legion Y 740 It comes in gaming regalia, but you have to buy a graphics card suitable for gaming as an external GPU dock.

Flat notebook with 14, 6-inch display: Lenovo Legion Y 740 You in the test External graphics unit Technical details Conclusion and test table Items in c’t 22 / 2020 read Thin notebooks are nothing special in themselves, with the Len gaming notebook ovo Legion Y 740 You still notice the slim design: In the only one centimeter flat hull of the 13, the 6-inch device does not have a U processor typical of flat notebooks (15 Watt TDP, Thermal Design Power), but with the Core i7 – 10750 H an H-CPU (45 – Watt class) from Intel’s tenth Core-i generation. It provides decent computing power for a gaming notebook, but is a chip with an aged core architecture and 13 – Nanometer transistors. The core comes to the multithreading performance of AMD’s Ryzen 4000 processors i7 – 10750 H not approaching; And when it comes to single-threading computing power, even the U models of the recently introduced eleventh generation of Core i are ahead.

The flat design has two special features. In order to dissipate the waste heat generated under load, four fans are required, and they start to rustle audibly even with short load. If the processing load continues, it gets very loud with over 3 sones. The cooling system has an impact on weight: You have to lug around 1.7 kilograms.

Although the notebook is assigned to Lenovo’s gaming brand Legion, it does not have an additional graphics chip. The UHD graphics unit, which is integrated in the processor and is too weak for all 3D worlds beyond Google Earth, takes care of the screen control.

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