My favorite gaming laptop of 2025 is $1,150 off in this pop-up early Black Friday deal

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Looking for a new gaming laptop? Lenovo’s 16-inch Legion Pro 7i<!–> is majorly discounted right now at B&H. We’re talking $1,150 off the regular price of $3,499 for a sale price of $2,349–>. That’s a significant discount for a laptop released in spring of 2025. 

Ahead of Black Friday, retailers are getting a head start on sales, and we’re seeing some notable laptop discounts this year before new product launches at the beginning of 2026.

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This is great news for consumers, as recently released laptops (like this one) are seeing price drops of 30%-40%. I went hands-on with the Legion Pro 7i earlier this year and can’t recommend it enough for its combination of high-performance hardware and well-designed form factor. 

The first thing you notice with the Legion Pro 7i is the gorgeous OLED display. Powered by an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080, the 240Hz 16-inch screen is positively immersive, with vibrant colors and inky blacks. The 2560 x 1600 (WQXGA) resolution delivers a crisp image, and support for G-Sync seals the deal with support for DisplayHDR True Black 500 and Dolby Vision.

Under the hood, you’ve got an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, with 24 cores (eight performance, 16 efficiency) capable of handling intensive workloads and running top-tier gaming titles with ease. With 32GB of RAM and two 1TB M.2 SSDs, you’ve got plenty of local storage and processing power.

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Let me not mince words here. This thing is a beast. The Legion Pro 7i is designed to shred through the most demanding titles out there right now, and the hardware on board well equips it to do so. During my testing, I got responsive, snappy performance in “Cyberpunk 2077” and “Baldur’s Gate 3”, with older titles not breaking a sweat.

That being said, all this powerful hardware generates a lot of heat. In Performance mode, the fans can fire at max power, which significantly brings the temperature down, but you’ll also have to listen to them cranking. 

The cooling system is efficient, expelling hot air out the back and bleeding a minimal amount of heat out through the front to the keyboard. However, the fan does take some getting used to, as it pops on even during normal day-to-day multitasking.

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Physically, the gamer aesthetic is in full effect here, if slightly restrained. The single bar of light across the front of the clamshell reflects onto the surface of your desk, and looks absolutely awesome. The back is illuminated across the diamond-shaped fan exhausts, and the “Legion” logo pulses with the rest of the effects.

The full-size keyboard with prominent arrow keys, appropriately sized number pad (and a subtle branding on one letter key in particular) feels premium and well-made, if rather standard. Key travel feels good, and the trackpad – aligned over the space bar – is adequate and functional.

Review: Lenovo Legion Pro 7i 

The Lenovo Legion Pro 7i feels like an 18-inch gaming laptop in a more sophisticated, 16-inch form. I love the display, the sleek build, and the hardware that delivers what you’re looking for in a gaming laptop: performance.

Ultimately, Lenovo employed a thoughtful design here to compensate for the device’s weaknesses. It runs hot but has a very effective cooling system. It’s incredibly power-hungry, but it charges way faster than you’d expect. This makes it a modern gaming laptop with all the power you’d expect, along with many of the caveats you’d consider as well. 

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