HWM Singapore – June 2019

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A gaming laptop with

ThinkPad DNA

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LENOVO

The Lenovo Legio
Y740 is a gaming
laptop that looks likeit
be a giant ThinkPad.Th
slate gray aluminumlid
plain and mostly unado
The only design eleme
here is the Legionbran
stamped on the side,b
there’s also an illumina
Legion logo hiddenin t
letter ‘O’ should youwa
added bit of  air (thev
at the side light upas w
which is pretty cool).
However, while I
appreciate the simpledesi ,
the laptop can alsofeel a
bit dated. Its keyboard and
trackpad give the impression
that they’re from a laptop
that came out several years
ago. There’s nothing wrong
with them per se, but the
Windows Precision trackpad
feels small and cramped and
the fonts look like they could

oder

alternative.What’smore,

Lenovo is still using physical

buttons on the trackpad. In

comparison, the Razer Blade

15 is also minimalist, but

feels very modern.

It’s the details that matter,

and I think Lenovo could

also have done away with

the angled sides around the

keyboarda d the rou d

powerbuttonat the center.

In addition, it’d have been

nice if the keyboard wasn’t

framed by so much empty

space; there could have been

more effi cient utilization of

the available room.

I’m nitpicking here though,

and the Legion Y740 is still

overall a pretty good laptop.

Build qualityfeels solid,

and while there’ssomeex

around the keyboard, you

have to push down quite

hard to notice it. There is

1.7mm of key travel distance

and the backlighting is

reasonably vibrant, but

the typing experience is

otherwise unremarkable.

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ByKohWanzi

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66 HWM | JUNE 2019