Lenovo’s Legion 9i Gaming Laptop Has a Massive 18-Inch Screen

Laptops are meant as portable computers, but sometimes, you gotta actually wonder how “portable” some of them are. This latest laptop by Lenovo packs some serious specs inside, but if you’re planning to put this in your backpack, you better not skip back day.

Lenovo has just announced the 10th-gen revision of the Lenovo Legion 9i, one of the best gaming laptops in its lineup. There’s a few things to highlight here. The main one is the fact that we have an 18-inch screen. Not only is it a first for Lenovo’s Legion 9i range, which used to come with up to a 16-inch panel, but it’s also an absolute monster of a display. It offers up to 4K resolution but can drop to 2K for a new “3D” mode. This 3D capability is designed for professionals working with 3D modeling, using eye-tracking technology combined with a lenticular lens array to deliver a glasses-free 3D experience.

The display itself also goes up to 240Hz when in 4K mode, and up to a whopping 440Hz if you drop it down to 1080p. Not bad. The laptop has a 93% screen-to-body ratio, so even with the 18-inch display, it might still manage to be smaller than some 16-inch laptops out there.

As for specs, it features the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, and it can be configured with up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU. It includes four RAM slots, supporting up to 192GB of dual-channel DDR5 RAM, and four SSD slots (one of which is PCIe Gen 5), allowing for up to 8TB of storage. It also has a 99.99 Wh battery, which is right around the absolute maximum you can bring with you on a plane—even then, battery life might not be impressive, considering the power-hungry specs, once you start to perform some heavier tasks. The laptop eats a whopping 280W between CPU and GPU alone.

Thankfully, it should at least remain cool. We have a vapor chamber, a hyper chamber, and a quad-fan system with dedicated fans for the Wi-Fi card, SSD, and RAM. Lenovo states this system keeps the laptop cool under heavy loads while maintaining a noise level below 48dB in Performance Mode. We have HDMI and Thunderbolt 5 ports as well. Everything you might want in a laptop is probably in here if you can handle the size.

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Still as expensive as always, though.

This laptop will go on sale in China first, before arriving in the US down the road. We don’t have pricing or availability info just yet, though considering tariffs, it’d be wise to expect this to not be cheap at all. Check out Lenovo’s website to know more.

Source: Lenovo