Post
Lenovo LOQ 15 (2025) Review: The best budget gaming laptop?
This video reviews the Lenovo LOQ 15 (2025), an affordable gaming laptop with good value for money. It highlights its gaming performance, comfortable keyboard, surprisingly good speakers, and upgradeability. However, it also points out that the screen is mediocre and the processor isn't the most modern. Overall, the reviewer recommends it, but suggests considering the Asus Tough A16 if it's the same price.
1. 💻 Lenovo LOQ 15 Design and Build Quality
- ✅ The design is discreet, similar to an office laptop, with gray colors and no RGB.
- ✅ The construction is plastic, but it feels solid and well-made for its price.
- ⚠️ It is thick and heavy, like most gaming laptops, which suggests good cooling.
00:00 - 01:01
1. 💻 Lenovo LOQ 15 Design and Build Quality
- ✅ The design is discreet, similar to an office laptop, with gray colors and no RGB.
- ✅ The construction is plastic, but it feels solid and well-made for its price.
- ⚠️ It is thick and heavy, like most gaming laptops, which suggests good cooling.
01:02 - 02:16
2. ⚙️ Lenovo LOQ 15 Specifications and Ports
- ✅ It includes an RTX 5060 and a recent AMD chip, offering good performance.
- ✅ The GPU has a high power limit for a 5060.
- ✅ It has a good selection of ports, with most located on the back to keep cables tidy.
- ⚠️ It charges with a yellow Lenovo connector, but can also be charged via USB-C (although charging may be slow during gameplay).
02:17 - 02:40
3. ⌨️ Lenovo LOQ 15 Keyboard Analysis
- ✅ It has bright white backlighting.
- ✅ The keys feel great, are clicky and well-balanced.
- ✅ It includes a full numeric keypad and full-size arrow keys.
02:41 - 03:00
4. 🖱️ Trackpad/Touchpad Evaluation
- ⚠️ The trackpad is small and located on the left, which is not ideal.
- ⚠️ It feels a bit cheap.
- ✅ It's very clicky, which is a plus.
03:01 - 04:29
5. 🖥️ Lenovo LOQ 15 Screen Quality
- ⚠️ The Full HD IPS panel is mediocre, with poor viewing angles that resemble a TN panel.
- ⚠️ The maximum brightness of 300 nits is the minimum acceptable, suitable for indoor use but not outdoors.
- ⚠️ Although it has a refresh rate of 144 Hz, the response times are slow, resulting in visible ghosting.
- ✅ It has a matte coating that reduces reflections.
- ⚠️ The colors are a bit dull and not very accurate.
- ✅ The hinge opens up to 180 degrees.
04:30 - 05:03
6. 🔊 Lenovo LOQ 15 Speaker Quality
- ✅ The speakers sound surprisingly good for an inexpensive laptop.
- ⚠️ They are bottom-firing, so the sound is worse if it is not on a surface.
- ✅ The sound is loud, clear, and with decent bass.
05:08 - 05:26
7. 🎤 Webcam and Microphone
- ⚠️ The microphone is basic and unremarkable.
- ✅ The webcam is high quality, ideal for video conferencing.
05:27 - 08:33
8. 🎮 Gaming Performance and Benchmarks
- ⚠️ In Cinebench R23, the Ryzen 7 250 shows mediocre performance, similar to a chip from three years ago.
- ✅ In 3DMark Time Spy, the RTX 5060 performs excellently, comparable to or better than some laptop RTX 4070s.
- ✅ The LOQ handles games well, both old and new, at high frame rates in 1080p.
- ⚠️ It only has 8 GB of VRAM, which can be a limiting factor in newer games.
- ✅ In silent mode, performance is reduced by 20%, but it is considerably quieter.
08:34 - 09:35
9. 🌡️ Temperatures and Fan Noise
- ✅ In the highest performance profile, it stays impressively cool, below 70°C for CPU and GPU.
- ⚠️ In this mode, the fan noise is typical of a gaming laptop.
- ✅ In silent profile, it stays even cooler and very quiet.
- ⚠️ The silent profile limits CPU and GPU power consumption, which reduces performance.
- ✅ It has a good cooling system.
09:36 - 10:25
10. 🔋 Battery life
- ⚠️ Battery life is not great.
- ✅ In light use (YouTube video playback), the duration is above average for a gaming laptop.
- ⚠️ In games (Battlefield 1), the duration is very short, as is typical in gaming laptops.
10:26 - 10:50
11. 🛠️ Upgradeability
- ✅ It has one pre-installed M.2 SSD slot (smaller format) and one additional full-size M.2 slot.
- ✅ The Wi-Fi card is upgradeable.
- ✅ The RAM is upgradeable.
10:51 - 11:37
12. 💰 Price and Value
- ⚠️ The tested model costs around $1200 USD.
- ✅ It is one of the cheapest RTX 5060 laptops available.
- ✅ Its performance is comparable to that of last year's RTX 4070 laptops, which cost almost twice as much.
- ✅ Cheaper models are available with slower processors.
- ⚠️ Does not recommend buying an RTX 5050 laptop.
- ✅ It is affordable and will likely become even cheaper in the future.
11:38 - 13:44
13. 🏆 Conclusion: Is the Lenovo LOQ15 worth it?
- ✅ The Lenovo LOQ15 is recommended.
- ⚠️ The screen is mediocre and the CPU is not the most modern.
- ✅ It does almost everything well, performs well in games, has good speakers, an excellent keyboard, and is affordable.
- ⚠️ The Asus Tough A16 is a better option if it is the same price, as it offers a slimmer body, a faster CPU, and a better screen.
- ✅ The LOQ is a great gaming laptop on its own.