Lenovo LOQ 15 review: The FHD gaming laptop with an RTX 4060 from around US$1,000

[Peter West]

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Wow man I remember those , micro-computers theye were calling 'em back in the day.

Phew you must be at least 80 and still gaming. Congrats!!!

[PeterGrowcott]

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Wow man I remember those , micro-computers theye were calling 'em back in the day.

Phew you must be at least 80 and still gaming. Congrats!!!

I'm 68 now. I remember I was a very early adopter of the Amstrad. It was the UK's first proper computer. For £400, not only did you get the PC & CP/M, you also got a diminutive dot matrix printer & some word processing software called LocoScript. Interestingly, adjusting for inflation, it would cost £1,200 today...which just goes to show what a bloody good deal the LOQ 15 is if only people could get past their own prejudices.


I first got into computing much earlier though at uni, using punched card stacks (yuk, horrible things!). In '77 while doing a student/industrial placement, I got to use a shared dial-up computing service called Comshare to write a phosphoric acid gas scrubbing simulation program in Basic. I very quickly became addicted. Then it was onto a Commodore Pet in '79 for writing my own heat exchanger train simulation programs. For any sort of professional engineer, these dinky little computers were an absolute Godsend.

The PC gaming thing, I only got into because the kids wanted them. Commander Keen, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures, Duke Nukem & the original Wolfenstein...all break through stuff back then. Happy days!

[PeterGrowcott]

Just on the off chance anyone's interested, here in the UK, you can now pick up the LOQ 15 with the Ryzen 7 7435HS, an Nvidia 4060 (115W), a 512GB SSD, 24GB of DDR5, the 300 nit 1080p screen  but NO copy of Windows, for the crazy low price of £622 (€740 or $US 800). That's the delivered price direct from Lenovo. This is even better than the £702 I paid three weeks ago & I thought I had bagged the bargain of the century.

[Necrocius]

I came across this rather heated debate bunchamce while browsing to find reviews for the machine described by Peter. I own the same laptop (amd 7435hs rtx 4060, lenovo loq) and i can confirm that so far (2 weeks) the laptop performs excellent fot it's price tag. I have used it mainly to perform benchmark "tests" with an abmverage use of 3 to 5 hours daily. Finished playing Firewatch (infamousnfor it's "heavy" unreal engine) and experienced satisfactory game flow. Plague Tale Requiem reached 120fps with ultra settings but dlss enabled. For a casual gamer like myself there could be no better deal in the market currently.
Real issues of concern for prospective byuers:
1) battery life (ridiculously short when gaming, lower than average for casual browsing  or office work on the go)
2) cheap speakers :-(

3) no option of controlling fan response, yes it is noisy when on performance mode.

I am fully satisfied with this configuration and being aware of the limitations of any machine , not everybody can afford hi-end laptops, and therefore machines that can tick the value for money
box are more than welcome. This one definitely does.

[John Galt]

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Wow man I remember those , micro-computers theye were calling 'em back in the day.

Phew you must be at least 80 and still gaming. Congrats!!!

I'm 68 now. I remember I was a very early adopter of the Amstrad. It was the UK's first proper computer. For £400, not only did you get the PC & CP/M, you also got a diminutive dot matrix printer & some word processing software called LocoScript. Interestingly, adjusting for inflation, it would cost £1,200 today...which just goes to show what a bloody good deal the LOQ 15 is if only people could get past their own prejudices.


I first got into computing much earlier though at uni, using punched card stacks (yuk, horrible things!). In '77 while doing a student/industrial placement, I got to use a shared dial-up computing service called Comshare to write a phosphoric acid gas scrubbing simulation program in Basic. I very quickly became addicted. Then it was onto a Commodore Pet in '79 for writing my own heat exchanger train simulation programs. For any sort of professional engineer, these dinky little computers were an absolute Godsend.

The PC gaming thing, I only got into because the kids wanted them. Commander Keen, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures, Duke Nukem & the original Wolfenstein...all break through stuff back then. Happy days!

Comshare, that's a blast from the past, Peter.
I was working in a CPA office in '74 (while in night study for degree) and started programming using Comshare and the spreadsheet programming language that was offered. That language later became FCS-EPS out of Wimbledon and spread to the US and Australia on mainframes and later PCs. We used it in a lawsuit in Houston in 1980 to win about $55 million from Bell Telephone.