Lenovo Legion Go S Review: Priced To Play Itself

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In a universe where all other competing products don’t exist, including Lenovo’s own Legion Go, I’d likely be marveling at how the is able to bring fully fledged PC games to the palms of our hands. I’d have nothing to compare it to, so I’d be blown away by the performance, the battery life, the price point – all of it. But we don’t live in that universe. Lenovo’s own first entry into this product category exists. The ASUS ROG Ally and Ally X exist. The Steam Deck exists.

In some ways, it’s exactly what I want. It travels roads I wish the original 2023 Legion Go had traveled. It packs in features other PC handheld makers should take note of. There are parts of this machine that bring me legitimate joy. In others, the Legion Go S is deeply disappointing. It makes some bizarre choices, particularly in regard to its power and its positioning in the market, that make mestruggle to see how it might fit into my life.

The Legion Go S finds itself in a crowded PC handheld space. Unfortunately, it doesn’t do nearly enough to stand out. So we’re all on the same page, here are the specifications for the Legion Go S variant this review is taking a look at:

Processor

AMD Ryzen™ Z2 Go

Memory

32GB 6400MHz LPDDR5X

Storage

1TB PCle SSD

Display

8" WUXGA (1920 x 1200) 16:10

Battery

55.5WHr

OS

Windows 11 Home

Let’s dive in.

I’m not the biggest fan of the original Lenovo Legion Go. Performance-wise, it certainly gets the job done. It can handle the task of running most games fairly well. But to this day, I can’t get past what I consider to be its numerous design flaws, most of which are the result of the “gimmicks” Lenovo chose to include in the device.

The Legion Go S, almost as though it read a checklist of complaints about its older sibling, addresses every single one of them in satisfying fashion. To give you an idea of how high I am on this design, I’ll say this: the Legion Go S doesn’t just leapfrog the Legion Go – it’s making a case for “best-designed PC handheld,” period.

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