Lenovo’s Y520 and Y720 laptops launch new ‘Legion’ brand of gaming hardware

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It looks like Lenovo’s toe-dip in the gaming laptop market has been successful enough to make the company’s gaming aspirations more permanent. Announced at CES on Tuesday, Lenovo’s gaming laptops have been spun off to a “Legion” sub-brand—which is definitely more fitting than the “IdeaPad” designation of the 2016 models.

The new Y520 and Y720 models will be the first to bear the Legion name.

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The laptops include the obligatory under-the-hood tune ups one would expect of a 2017 update. Both the Y520 and Y720 feature up to seventh-generation Intel Core i7 processors, Nvidia’s 10-series graphics cards, 16GB of DDR4 RAM, and either a 512GB SSD or a 2TB hard drive. These aren’t bad specs, and we’re especially interested in the Y720 with its 6GB GTX 1060. In addition to being decently powerful, that graphics card makes the Y720 capable of pumping a virtual reality headset.

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