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PRICE RTX 4090, £3,483 (£4,180 inc VAT) from lenovo.com
The Lenovo Legion 9i Gen 8 pulls out all the stops. Its high-end specification would make it a powerful workstation, but as the showy design and a premium GPU indicate, it’s aimed at gamers willing to pay top dollar for a unique set of features.
When we say top dollar, we mean it. Our review model, with an Intel Core i9-13980HX processor, 32GB of RAM and 16GB Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics, comes to more than £4,000 including VAT. Lenovo also offers a variant with a 12GB RTX 4080 GPU – UK pricing on that model isn’t yet confirmed, but it will still be well over £3,000.
That money buys you both a great laptop but also bragging rights: this is the first laptop with self-contained liquid cooling (). Even the lid is special, made from what Lenovo calls “forged carbon”, which bears an organic pattern unique
