Lenovo Legion Go 8.8" 144Hz WQXGA Handheld Touchscreen Gaming PC AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme 16GB RAM 512GB SSD Shadow Black, 8APU1

I generally don't like to give corporations free advertising, but this thing really impressed me. I bought it to play 3 games streets of rage 4, never winter nights, and retroarch. I was debating about getting a switch, or steam deck, but I am glad I got this. I can't believe how powerful the CPU is in this. The 2 pictures are of the legion and my liquid cooled 5600x. The legion almost beats it in everything, but most important is the single core score of 3600 which is really high, and what games need. Can't believe they sell this for 600. Just the screen and cpu alone are worth that. The screen is top notch, it's almost as good as my 120 OLED tv, the colors are great, the black uniform is decent, and in some ways it's better, it does white better than a oled can. Oleds have a tint on white screens this is doesn't, it is really a high quality screen. It plays streets of rage 4 at max settings and it's native resolution fine. It can do never winter nights at around 60 fps on high settings, which is surprising good. It's that 3600 CPU doing it, nwn is old and can't use a lot of cores. I was worried it would be hard to control mouse and keyboard games with this, but it has everything you need a touch pad, mouse wheel, and more importantly the control software they give you is excellent. That is a big one, most companies get the hardware right, but fail miserable at the software side, making it a night mare to control, or worse it's just bloat spy ware, looking at you Alienware. The program they give you works super well, easy to use, and does everything you want, from fan control, updates, onscreen keyboard, shortcuts, and its linked to one of the buttons. It stays very cool, for such a powerful machine the fan system they use is definitely good. The controllers are easy to use, they are backwards of the switch, they slide down not up to take them off, which had me for a second. This machine is Superior to all hand helds out there, by leaps and bounds. The only down side is it is a bit heavy. I've played it for over a hour and half holding it up and I was fine, and I'm no body builder 5'7 145, average. I would rather have the big screen and powerhouse, bigger battery then light anyways. The battery lasts on max performance playing never winter, maxing the GPU for over 2 hours, which is insanely good for what it's doing. It charges super fast as well, and comes with a long cable. Even if you aren't going to game much, you can't get a 2560 high end screen, with a desktop level CPU for 600 dollars. So this would work well for a laptop as well. Just pop the controllers off, it has a touch pad, and a sensor on the bottom of one of the controllers for moving the mouse. Use the back stand, and get a little keyboard, and bam you have a really decent laptop for 600 bucks. You can use the USB which it has 2 to hook it up to a monitor as well. Just beyond good price for what you get, and is super useful.

With appropriate performance expectations this is a great gaming handheld, you can emulate basically all consoles up to PS3 and play them well along with playing PC games at reasonable settings. Keep in mind the integrated graphics on this are not going to match a dedicated graphics card, but setting the resolution and quality low will enable you to play a lot of AAA PC games. I own this and the original ROG Ally Z1 Extreme, I find myself preferring this handheld thanks to the larger screen though I wish the resolution was lower on this device and the screen was VRR. At 1600p this screen is very sharp, though it would still be sharp at 1200p considering a 24-inch monitor is plenty sharp at 1080p. Colors on this device are vibrant and it gets bright enough for me. I wish it was HDR for an improved picture but that's probably in works for the future. Speakers are okay with this, top-firing was an odd choice. They get plenty loud and sound alright but the ROG Ally is superior here. The speakers are more than serviceable though. Controls are great for the most part. The sticks work great and feel very comfortable to use. The device overall is comfortable to hold and use plus you can set this up using the included kickstand and detach the controllers or use a third-party controller. All the face buttons are great though the d-pad is much more inset than I expected and sort of odd. The triggers are great and I have no issues with them. I understand the choice for the buttons on the back of the device as they are not symmetrical, but it takes some adjustment to get used to. The FPS mode for having mouse control is pretty neat and just adds to the flexibility of this device. No issues with the touchscreen or touchpad, touchpad is on the small side though. Performance wise, without a frame counter on screen this feels the same as my ROG Ally at basically the same resolutions and settings. I can't discern a performance difference in any games without looking at specs on screen. Would I recommend this device? Possibly, if you want a gaming handheld now and are not interested in waiting for the new generation, then yes. New handhelds will be releasing with the newer generation of AMD processors, these will perform better than the current generation by a substantial amount thanks to the newer integrated graphics. I'd readily recommend this over the original ROG Ally Z1 Extreme for several reasons: integrated kickstand, larger screen, included case, the Legion Go has not ruined a 1TB micro-SD card for me, more features, etc. The Legion Go battery is also lasting longer than my ROG Ally which has been great. Realistically, a laptop may be a better choice depending on your needs, you can get a lot more performance and some user upgradability past storage.

This has been my daily driver for 6 months now. When I first received it I logged in registered it with Lenovo and then immediately removed windows and installed Linux (CachyOS a Steam Deck Variant). I am a Docked user almost exclusively. For my use case this is the only Handheld on the market obviously your use case may change this. I mostly only use the tablet. It is great within the limitations of what you are getting. I am writing my review on this with a hub and peripherals attached. Pros Tablet Mode makes it stealthy and I can use it at work docked. Well built Feels solid Linux performance is great Screen is beautiful. Controllers have been great when I use them(have never once used FPS mode so I can't speak to that) Cons If using in handheld mode it can be fatiguing. Fan can be loud Storage could be higher. Finding cases for it can be challenging. It is a big boy.

Easily one of the best purchases I've made in recent memory. I've gone out of my way to install a new backplate so a new SSD would fit, as I had a spare lying around of a larger physical size than the Legion Go supports normally. I also installed SteamOS on the thing with absolutely no issues. I have found that performance is greatly improved with SteamOS over Windows 11, if only because the operating system uses fewer resources thus allowing more of the system memory to be allocated to the GPU. The USB4 ports are amazing, though I very rarely use the one on the underside of the unit. However, with USB4 external displays are super easy to connect with the right USB hub. I generally leave my Legion Go connected to my TV. HOWEVER: Note that the included 65 watt charger is NOT enough to charge the Legion Go AND anything connected via a hub, so a 100 watt charger is suggested. I nabbed a couple of Anker 100w 'wall warts' as I've come to call them, and they work well for this. Just ensure that whatever charger you get can do 100 watts over a single port, not divided among whatever ports your charger may have. In any case, the Legion Go is a great little machine. The 144hz refresh rate is fantastic, but I do feel like the 2560 x 1600 resolution might be a bit too much for this hardware. Depends entirely on the games you play, really. I find myself playing at 1280 x 800 quite often. Isn't an OLED, but it looks great regardless. Very bright, fairly dark blacks. I do find it a bit odd that the only supported refresh rates are 144hz and 60hz, but it isn't a big deal. Controllers are alright. I never use the buttons on the backside, but I LOVE the touchpad and especially the 'FPS' mode where you can use the right controller as a vertical mouse. They aren't the most comfortable, but aren't awful either. I've found that I prefer using the controllers with a third-party charging connector that connects them into a single normal-ish controller. The supplied case is alright, but I got a third-party one with a bit more storage space so I can keep the charger, FPS mode controller dock, controller connector, and USB hub all together. Speakers are... I mean, what do you expect out of such a small device? It's got a headphone jack and bluetooth, so use whatever you prefer. All in all, for everything the device both is and is able to do, is a wonderful value. Windows, SteamOS, whatever other flavor of Linux you want, go HAM on this thing. With the controllers disconnected, combined with the kickstand on the backplate... the thing is a really attractive device.

I was already thinking on buying a SteamDeck, but the bigger screen on this stole me away. I have to say, I'm very glad I did. You have the functionality of a portable gaming PC, that runs windows 11, which you can detach the controllers and use it for streaming your favorite video apps and it has its own stand. Battery life is great. Having windows means that you dont need extra keyboard for those games that need keyboard input, you can use the virtual one easily. So using the keyboard feels like typing on your phone or tablet. You can use LenovoLegion UI for games or you can install Steam, Epic, EA and other UI that you might install on a regular PC normally hassle-free. Emulators run super smooth on this tech and with the advantage of the bigger screen, its just awesome!

This was delivered on December 6th. I waited a while to review it after I'd have some time with it. That being said this handheld hasn't disappointed. I was a bit leary after seeing that it was a frequently returned item. After using this for almost tree months I can't figure out why someone would return this so often. This is a windows device I'm mostly playing my steam library but also have Gog, Epic and ubi soft game stores too. I have only one game out of dozens that wouldn't run, it won't recognize the on board graphics card. With just a little bit of adjustments my triple a games mostly run around above 90 frames per second. This is one of if not the biggest handheld gaming screen out there. Could it be better? Yes anything can be, could it have hdr? Yes could it be oled? Yes but knowing the size of the screen it would actually be over kill. My gaming computer I built runs on a 1080p monitor with 145hz. This runs at a higher pixel rate and at 144hz. The screen is plenty bright and colorful. The cpu is way more than adequate. The only downside is that it only had 512 gb ssd which i updated to 2tb. Plus it would also benefit from 32 gb of ram instead of 16 to allocate more ram dedicated to the gpu. I can't comment on the battery life as I have this on mt end table next to my chair on a dock so I barely use my desktop anymore. As it is I'm not at all disappointed with my purchase. I've been building my own gaming computers for over thirty years and this suits me just fine. Buy it do a bit of adjusting and you'll love it as much as I do.

At this point I'm just angry with it. I've spent days trying to work with this thing. I updated Windows and everything I could through the normal interfaces immediately. Installed the same game (Tales of Symphonia) I've tried on the ASUS ROG (with no issues). First, I installed Steam, but even that was a pain. The APP Lenovo uses kept just initiating a .png file instead of an .exe file to run Steam, so I had to find a way to bypass and use Windows 11 on the tablet without understanding the mouse functions (no two finger tapping or anything like that). Finally got Steam installed, ran the game, it immediately flips my screen. Wow! I think, "Well, I should exit the game." Nope, now my Windows is in a flipped screen state. I had to turn it off at this point. Too many problems in a row. Come back to it, still have the same problem. I sought resolutions online. I even adjusted the rotation lock, flipped the screen, etc., but to no avail. I'll try again another day. Come back to it today and I'm looking to expand my troubleshooting. I hook it up to a USB-C dock (thankfully I had one) so I can connect to an HDMI display. I suppose I could have remoted into my TV also (that's an option), but I chose to work with my second monitor instead. I get it on and now the monitor is in the correct position while my Legion GO is flipped, and the screen acts right for my monitor, but upside down for my GO (even though I'm touching the GO screen). It's very disorienting. I tried messing with display settings, changing the power modes. I even changed the refresh rate of the monitor DOWN because I was planning on playing and I just wanted to make it stable. As soon as I did that it flipped my actual monitor sideways and made it very ugly. No correction on that. Had to reboot. No reseating the dock or the HDMI cable or turning the Hz rate back corrected it. I finally decided to try another game. I load up Helldivers 2 (I realize Helldivers has more problems than any game this year) and it loads up to the accept terms and "help us improve page" and it immediately freezes. I had to hard boot and restart. I looked for more solutions. Apparently the Lenovo APP has a driver update area. I'm in it currently. I updated the chipset. Restart. No fix to my current issues. I update the display driver (was definitely looking for an AMD app before) and it says "must restart and stay connected to power." Acknowledged. I'll definitely do that right. It does that, blinks the screen, and now I'm starting at a white screen on both the AMD Legion GO and my monitor. Just a big, white screen. That's where I'm currently at now. Don't trust these videos about the GO being the best device. I've played a Steam Deck. I've played the ASUS ROG. I've not had anywhere near the issues I'm having with this device. Someone decided that quality control was not a concern and sent this thing to market.

I did a lot of research before deciding to get this, compared to the Asus ROG Ally and Steam Deck competition. I'm personally very happy with the purchase. Deciding factors compared to the competitors were: 1) Larger and sharper screen 2) Detachable controllers and built-in kickstand 3) Dual USB-C 4) FPS mode on the controllers 5) Most powerful hardware (tie with ROG Ally) It's very versatile due to its powerful CPU/GPU, at high TDP (thermal throttling) levels it can run AAA games at 60fps and 1080p resolution. The large screen makes it usable as a work machine in a pinch (need an external keyboard though realistically). Downsides: the performance comes at a cost to battery life. On the go, you can play AAA games as above but you will only get maybe 45 mins of battery life. You can lower resolution and TDP, or play less demanding games, and get 2-3 hours of life. One other thing that personally doesn't bother me, but may make this a difficult proposition for less computer-literate people, is that this is effectively a Windows tablet/laptop. To get the best out of it requires a decent amount of fiddling with settings and customisation, removing bloatware, closing programs that don't need to be running etc. The ROG Ally has the same issue, and this along with battery life is where a Steam Deck really wins. I hope my brief review above can help someone in considering which gaming handheld fits their needs best.