This laptop is an absolute beast. I work from home, all of this work before I bought this laptop, was done from a Steam Deck! Its all I had! Not even a TV, just that tiny little device that had my entire world on it in a 512gb storage capacity. My workloads became too much for the Steam Deck's APU; Having both graphical and Computational power share the same little 16gb space was very limiting, and the Steam Deck's 8 cores and 12 threads couldn't support my multi-tasking needs. When I got this laptop my entire working life, and personal life changed. Let's start with the monitor: It's fricking huge, LITERALLY! The Lenovo 5i is LITERALLY 4 TIMES the screen I'm used to, not to mention that array of colors that come along with the OLED display. It's absolutely stunning, I've never had a wider refresh rate than 60hz. The screen is absolutely breath-taking.
Let's get to the fun part next, the GPU!I have NEVER in my life owned hardware with a proper GPU, all my life I've grown up using laptops with integrated graphics. This GPU is a fricking treat. Before I bought this laptop, I was scouring websites that let you check FPS in games if you specify the hardware. The litmus test in mind I had were three intense games that would suffer on a Steam Deck; Monster Hunter Wilds, Black Myth Wukong, and Oblivion:Remastered. Each of them reported frame rates that I couldn't confirm myself at the time, so I was suspicious! I can absolutely confirm that this GPU, will accomplish ANY of your graphical needs. Monster Hunter Wilds Max settings I'm getting over 60 fps with DLSS features, the other two games I do not own anymore as I refunded them due to the Steam Deck's constraints. Every game I throw at this machine runs beautifully at max settings. As for Blender, I've NEVER had the luxury of seeing the viewport in 60FPS until now and it is a breath of fresh air. Again, with the beautiful display on the laptop, it makes it even better to work with. Rendering is just as quick. Before I had to render on cycles, waiting 30 minutes, sometimes almost an HOUR to render one image. This machine just spits it out.
Next lets talk the the CPU! This CPU is a fricking monster, just an absolute task-devouring behemoth of a processor. I am a HUGE multi-tasker. I swear, I'm turning into a tablet kid the older I get because I like to have YouTube in the corner of my screen whenever I work, or play games. On the steam deck I would be using 100% of my CPU just having 1 tab open alongside a game, if I was rendering an images I'd have to close all other applications. I'd baby my steam deck like it was made of glass bones and paper skin, as though one wrong move would make my steam deck crash while rendering through cycles. This laptop WILL NOT give you those issues... She is a multi-tasking monster! She is only limited by her ram.
Ram bottle-necked but upgradeable and EGPU compatible. I had more but had to make this short because I ran out of words characters. I'm sorry. Buy this now