Lenovo’s Legion 5 is a fast, OLED-equipped gaming laptop for $1,050

You tin drawback the AMD-based model, oregon walk an other $150 connected the somewhat faster Intel mentation that besides has treble the interior storage. | Image: The Verge

As portion of our Amazon Prime Big Deal Days sum earlier this month, I was tasked with spotting notable discounts happening astatine Walmart. My favourite was the $600 disconnected woody connected Lenovo’s Legion 5 gaming laptop, which has a 15.1-inch 2,560 x 1,600 (16:10 facet ratio) OLED surface with a 165Hz refresh rate, Nvidia’s RTX 5060 GPU, and different coagulated specs. The merchantability terms was $950, but if you missed retired connected the sale, it’s inactive a fantastic worth astatine $1,050, oregon $500 off.

Lenovo Legion 5 gaming laptop

Where to Buy:

• $1549.99 $1050 astatine Walmart

The Legion 5 is simply a amended entry-level gaming laptop than $1,050 tin usually get you. Getting an RTX 5060 wrong of 1 astatine this terms is rare, but not unheard of. But getting it successful a instrumentality nether $1,500 that besides touts a susceptible AMD Ryzen 7 260 processor, user-replaceable RAM and retention (it comes with 16GB DDR5 and 512GB, respectively), and an OLED surface is decidedly a rarity.

The Ryzen 7 260 is susceptible and efficient, but if you’d alternatively opt for the mentation of the Legion 5 that has a somewhat faster Intel Core i7 14700HX processor, positive treble the interior retention (1TB versus 512GB), it’s disposable astatine Walmart for $1,199 ($301 off).

Other Verge-approved deals for you

• Last week, Amazon renamed the Fire TV Stick 4K to the Fire TV Stick 4K Plus. It was an effort to marque its lineup little confusing, pursuing the instauration of the Fire TV Stick 4K Select. Regardless of the sanction change’s effectiveness, you tin grab the superior 4K Plus for $24.99 (50 percent off) done Amazon. Or amended yet, prevention different $2 connected the merchandise by purchasing it done Woot. You tin get the 4K Plus determination for $22.99, adjacent though the tract doesn’t bespeak its sanction change. This streaming instrumentality offers galore of the aforesaid perks arsenic the pricier Fire TV Stick 4K Max, including enactment for Dolby Vision and different HDR formats, positive Dolby Atmos audio successful Atmos-ready content.
• The passing of Tomonobu Itagaki past week inspired maine to dive backmost into immoderate of the fantabulous Ninja Gaiden games that helium directed. If you privation to bash the same, and you person either a gaming PC oregon a gaming handheld, drawback the Ninja Gaiden Master Collection for conscionable $15.95 astatine Fanatical (it’s a Steam key) with the codification OMENVIP that should automatically beryllium applied erstwhile you click the link. The postulation contains the Sigma versions of the archetypal 2 reboot titles, positive Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge, which is simply a debased constituent for the series. Let’s anticipation that Ninja Gaiden 4 turns things astir erstwhile it launches aboriginal this year.
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