TECH NEWS – Thanks to a leak, we can see what Lenovo’s handheld PC looks like when it’s taken apart.

 

We’ve known the specs of the Lenovo Legion Go for quite some time, but it’s safe to say that there was a device with an AMD Ryzen Z1 APU (processor and graphics chip integrated on a single circuit) before it, and therefore the Asus ROG Ally is considered a direct competitor to the “portable Legion”. You can see the disassembled handheld PC on the Chinese video sharing site Bilibili, courtesy of popular hardware leaker Golden Pig Upgrade, but you can also check out the cooling solution, for example, via pictures.

Lenovo’s product has similar internals to mainstream handheld PCs, but the cooling system is much more compact, and you can see how much simpler the Chinese company has gone compared to Asus’ machine. The Legion Go uses only one fan to dissipate heat, while the ROG Ally uses two. The heatsink is an aluminum blade and uses a single copper pipe, while the Asus uses two copper pipes and a single copper baseplate (and initially there were overheating problems, but Asus managed to fix this with a firmware update).

Based on early tests, the Lenovo Legion Go’s temperature results are identical to the Asus ROG Ally’s, while using the same TDP (power consumption) during gaming, so there could be problems there as well. The battery has a capacity of 49.2 Wh, which is considerable for the device. We see AMD’s Z1 Extreme APU in the disassembled machine, which also has 1 6GB of LPDDR5X-7200 memory, a maximum of 1 TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD, and another 2 TB of storage via a microSD slot. The build of the machine looks good, but it’s also sturdy, true, the display is better… but what will the feedback be from the first gamers?

In the USA, the Lenovo Legion Go will be available from November 1st. The 512GB model will be available for at least $700, the 1TB version for $750 and the 2TB for $800.

Source: WCCFTech