So far, 2023 has been a good year for gaming laptops. We’re getting next-gen CPUs like Intel’s 13th-gen Raptor Lake and AMD’s Ryzen 7000 series, to go with Nvidia’s GeForce 40 series GPUs. And that’s not to mention the impressive new mini-LED displays hitting the market.
The Legion Pro 7i gives you a much more affordable option when configured with the RTX 4070 and less RAM, but the two laptops are similarly priced with the same components. Both laptops have comfortable keyboards, with the Asus using membrane switches and the Lenovo using the company’s TrueStrike keyboard. Both are comfortable for both gaming and traditional typing, and both offer per-key RGB lighting. Both touchpads are equally small for the laptops’ sizes, but both are comfortable to use. Of course, you’ll likely opt for a gaming mouse.
The Strix Scar 17 led most of our benchmarks, and notably, its single-core performance in Geekbench 5 was faster than many past AMD CPUs that mostly excelled in multi-core tests. Where the Asus fell behind was in the Pugetbench Premiere Pro benchmark that runs in a live version of Adobe’s Premiere Pro, which can use the GPU to speed up various tasks.