If it was my money, this 14-inch OLED machine would be the gaming laptop deal I'd be clicking on today
Lenovo Legion Slim 5 | RTX 4060 | Ryzen 7 7840HS | 14-inch | 2880 x 1800 | 120 Hz | OLED | 16GB LPDDR5X | 1TB SSD | $1,479.99$1,049.99 at Best Buy (save $430)
Though I am a big fan of Asus' new Zephyrus chassis for the G16, I am much more of a fan of the 14-inch form factor of this Legion 5 Slim. And, what's more, you get a bright, 400 cd/m² OLED panel with a decently high resolution as well. That and twice the storage that you'll find in a similarly priced Asus machine. This is a really tempting deal on the only sort of gaming laptop that I'd actually want to buy myself.
✅ 14-inch
✅ 16:10 aspect ratio
✅ OLED
✅ 120 Hz
✅ Ada GPU
✅ Zen 4 CPU
✅ 16GB LPDDR5X RAM
✅ 1TB NVMe SSD
That's a lot of my boxes ticked right there. This is an excellent gaming laptop, with a seriously impressive spec for the money—this Legion Slim 5 OLED is on sale at Best Buy for just $1,050 right now. To be clear, the primary reason why this would be my pick of any gaming laptop deal I've seen today is because of its size. The 14-inch form factor is absolutely my go-to size for any mobile machine I would consider buying.
Sure, a 16-inch notebook will give you a load of screen real estate and have the necessary chassis girth to deliver a healthy amount of cooling for your high-performance components, but a 14-inch gaming laptop is the perfect mix of power and genuine portability.
That's stick-in-the-bag-on-your-way-out-the-door scale, and not something you're going to have to go rooting through Amazon for just to find a bag big enough to cope with its size… and the inevitably chonk charger to power it.
The 16-inch Legion Slim 5 isn't especially slim, but the 14-inch version is about the same as the Razer Blade 14, though actually a bit lighter. That makes it properly mobile.
The screen is the other thing which really catches my eye, too. It's an OLED 14-incher, which isn't that common. Razer doesn't bother with its Blade 14. And it's a high-resolution 16:10 screen with a high refresh rate, a
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