Now that SteamOS 3.7.8 has added official support for Lenovo’s handheld gaming PC, as well as a recovery image for installation on other handhelds like the Rog Ally and original Legion Go, it’s time to find out.
YouTuber Dave2D seems impressed, saying the Steam version has better performance than the Windows version in some games, and better performance in some games than the Steam Deck OLED -- albeit with more wattage required.
So says Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, arguing the company can “adjust quickly” to tariff changes, but only if it knows “what the end game is.”
Yuanqing estimates tariffs have cost Lenovo more than $15 million, even with exemptions for computers and phones, and says that while the company won’t stop manufacturing in China, it may diversify to become more “resilient.”
The Lenovo ThinkBook Flip concept has another fun trick up it’s sleeve besides its foldable display. Its trackpad has hidden LED icons built into it, allowing you to summon three layers of controls and handy shortcuts.
My favorite was using it as a number pad and calling up the calculator app on the laptop’s giant 18.1-inch screen, but it has other (more useful) features too — including custom user-defined ones.
Lenovo announced two concept AI accessories at Mobile World Congress 2025. The pair of devices, creatively named AI Display and AI Stick, have built-in NPUs capable of 32 TOPS, allowing users to do local AI work on just about any computer plugged in via USB.
Like other Lenovo proofs of concept, we don’t know if the AI Display or AI Stick will ever come to market — but there’s a chance.
Lenovo’s new ThinkBook 3D Laptop Concept and Hybrid Dimensional 34-inch Curved Monitor Concept, announced at Mobile World Congress 2025, use directional backlighting and head tracking to simultaneously show 2D and 3D content without glasses. An accompanying AI Ring concept can be worn to control them with gesture-based spatial controls.
It sounds like Leia’s tech, but Lenovo reps would not confirm during my short demo.
Maybe 3D is coming back? (I doubt it.)
Lenovo is about to release a folding laptop called the ThinkBook Flip, according to leaker Evan Blass. And yes, we know every laptop folds, but this one does it twice: once at the regular hinge, and then again halfway down the display, which folds outwards when the laptop shuts.
It follows the $3,499 ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, a laptop with a rollable screen that goes on sale in June.
Originally announced last August with an expected release in October 2024, Lenovo’s wedge-shaped Charging Connector is finally available for $49.99.
Similar to the Switch’s Joy-Con grip, the accessory turns the Legion Go’s controllers into a single gamepad with a longer-lasting 2,850mAh battery. And while it’s rumored that the new Legion Go 2’s controllers will be backwards compatible with the original, it’s not known if this charging accessory will also be.
A real expanding screen straight out of science fiction! Antonio, Andrew and I couldn’t stop grinning, particularly as Lenovo encouraged us to just use the $3500 ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 instead of treating it like some fragile prototype.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a tad awkward because Windows doesn’t officially support expanding screens, but an invisible multimonitor hack seems to work. Get on it, Microsoft!
Physically, and on paper, I would pick this one over the original Legion Go in a heartbeat. It feels so much better — and it’s the first third-party handheld with SteamOS, which vastly improves that feel.
Sorry I couldn’t provide any performance or battery impressions, though: this unit has an old Z1 Extreme chip inside, no intensive games on display, not even a Portal 2 savegame.
The second-gen Lenovo Legion Glasses pull the same magic trick as the original — putting a 1.26-inch full HD MicroOLED USB-C display in front of your eyeballs — but with a stylish new prescription-ready aviator frame that’s lighter at 65 grams.
The display now supports up to a 120Hz refresh rate, a 98 percent DCI-P3 color gamut, and is significantly brighter at 800 nits (up from 270 nits).
The new 16-inch Legion Pro 7i, announced at CES, features Nvidia 50-series GPUs and up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX. It will start at $2,399 when it launches in March.
There’s a lot of intriguing new gaming laptops in this range, but not all of them offer a 2560 x 1600 240Hz OLED in all configurations.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is at Lenovo’s Tech World conference announcing a partnership with... AMD? We’ll hear more about the “x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group” that they’re founding, but for now he’s assuring us that rumors of the x86’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.
The ThinkPad T14s Gen 6, which launched as a Snapdragon laptop, will get a $1,699 AMD Zen 5 variant in October with an undisclosed Ryzen AI Pro chip.
North America won’t get: €699 IdeaPad Slim 5 with AMD Ryzen 7000; €1699 Yoga Pro 7 with AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 and a 14.5-inch 600-nit OLED; €999 ThinkBook 16 Gen7+ with Ryzen AI 9 365.
It features Qualcomm’s new budget 8-core chip underneath a 16-inch 2K 60Hz, 300-nit IPS display — with “up to” 32GB RAM and 1TB storage. It does come standard with an big 84Wh battery.
Lenovo’s other new Qualcomm is the $850 IdeaPad 5x 2-in-1. It has a brighter 14-inch 400-nit OLED display, but a smaller 57Wh battery and only one USB-C.
Good news: Lenovo’s 14-inch ThinkPad X1 Carbon and 15-inch Yoga Slim 7i now have Intel Lunar Lake chips alongside 2.8K OLED screens and twin Thunderbolt 4 ports. Lenovo says the 2.16-pound Carbon is its lightest ever.
Weird news: They’re both now “Aura Edition” laptops, which apparently means software like focus modes, posture alerts, and “Smart Share” — tap an iPhone or Android to your laptop to share photos.
Lenovo previously had an unsatisfactory answer, but it’s come around:
For affected processors, we will honor Intel’s 2-year processor warranty extension and recommend customers impacted by any CPU instability issues to contact Lenovo service for support.
Fuller statement in our big story:
The number-one PC maker has answered our question whether it’ll honor Intel’s two-year extended warranty on damaged chips — but the answer doesn’t even include the word “warranty.”
Lenovo has been made aware of the instability issue affecting Intel’s 13th and 14th Generation Processors and is working with Intel to understand the potential impact on our products and how to best resolve them. We will work toward integrating into our future product BIOS any fixes provided by Intel once available. We recommend customers impacted by any CPU instability issues to contact Lenovo service for support.
Intel is footing the bill for replacements; this shouldn’t be a hard decision for Lenovo.
