Lenovo’s Legion line of gaming laptops is expanding with one new laptop unveiled at CES 2020. The Lenovo Legion Y740S looks similar to the existing Y740, but it’s much, much slimmer. The slimmest of the Legion line yet at 14.9mm thin and weighing less than 2kg.
This is due to it using the old external GPU trick. The Legion Y740S can connect, via a Thunderbolt 3 cable, to an external GPU- the Legion BoostStation- where you can add either an Nvidia RTX 2060 6GB or an AMD Radeon RX5700XT graphics card, with room to add extra SSD or hard drive as well.
As a standalone laptop, the Y740S is more of an ultrabook. It is powered by the upcoming 10th-gen Intel Core CPUs (including the 10th-gen Core i9). Unlike the Y740, it has a more conventional keyboard layout- the arrow keys are not the edge and there are rows of keys on top of the numpad keys which the Y740 doesn’t. It also has a fingerprint reader, not seen in the Y740.
The 15.6″ display can either be a 1080p 60Hz IPS screen with 300 nits, or a 4K 60Hz IPS screen with 100% Adobe sRGB, VESA HDR400 certified, Dolby Vision supported and 500 nits bright.
The Legion line has always been consistent with their style and savage imagery, and this might be the perfect fit for such a crowd that has professional work, but also play video games. Have a normal laptop, with what you’d expect from a business laptop, for work, but plug it into an external GPU back home and it’s ready for gaming.
The Lenovo Legion Y740S and the Legion BoostStation will be releasing in May 2020. We’ll find out soon enough if or when it lands in Malaysia.