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Lenovo is one of the last remaining brands that seems to be truly committed to the art of the MWC experience. Every year, without fail, Lenovo will show up with a host of new and exciting laptops and tablets, as well as some interesting, innovative or just plain insane concepts that their eggheads have cooked up in the R&D labs.
This year, we’ve already seen a healthy dose from both camps, ranging from the practical, student-focused Idea Tab Pro Gen 2 to the fanciful ThinkBook Modular AI Laptop Concept, and things show no sign of slowing down as we turn our attention to Lenovo’s Legion line.
We’ve got three main things to cover here, two that are normal and one that is an interesting idea but ultimately very silly in practice. In much the same way that peas go before ice cream, let’s look at the sensible things first.
Lenovo Legion 7a (15”, 11)
The latest entry to Lenovo’s laptop legion is also the brand’s first to feature unified memory architecture, which doesn’t require data to be copied from RAM or VRAM, and therefore should deliver improved efficiency with operations like 3D rendering and AI tasks, as well as generally lower latency.
Performance in the 11th-gen Legion 7a comes courtesy of AMD Ryzen AI Max Plus series processors, with integrated Radeon graphics. The display is a 15.3in OLED and is set on an all-aluminium frame that comes in a rich Nebula purple colourway. The whole package weighs 1.65kg.
Prices are estimated to start at around €2,000 (no word yet on UK conversions) with stock set to hit shelves in June of this year. Check back with us around then to see how the Legion 7a stacks up to our favourite gaming laptops, like the Asus TUF Gaming A15 (2025).
Lenovo Legion Tab (8.8”, 5)
Next up we have the fifth generation of Lenovo’s Legion Tab. This pocket powerhouse is fronted by an 8.8in 3K display with a breezy 165Hz peak refresh rate and a stated 600 nits maximum brightness.
Inside is the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, a 9,000mAh battery and up to 16GB of 10667 RAM and 512GB of storage space. All that power inside such a compact frame is bound to generate some heat, which is why Lenovo has updated the Legion Coldfront Vapor cooling system, which apparently achieves up to 32% increase in heat dissipation efficiency compared to the previous generation.
This 360g tablet will be available in Glacier White, Eclipse Black and the striking green “Surge” colourways, and is due to hit shelves in April of this year. Pricing is expected to be around the €999 mark – so quite pricey by tablet standards.
Lenovo Legion Go Fold Concept
As the local phone and tablet guy around the Expert Reviews water cooler, I like to think I keep my finger on the pulse, and I have been wondering of late when we might see foldable tech from the likes of the Honor Magic V6 and Motorola Razr Fold (also both announced at MWC) making its way over to the tablet format.
Well, here you go, MWC answered my musings with the fun-looking Legion Go Fold Concept device. This multi-modal tablet looks quite similar to the above Legion Tab at first glance, with a slightly smaller 7.7in display, and then a whole other half of the screen unfolds from behind it. This format allows you to clip controllers on the sides with it folded – for a smaller screen adventure – or unfolded, in either portrait or landscape orientation.
If you have quite a bit of elbow room, you could unfurl the whole 11.3in display, slap the controllers on the sides and immerse yourself in the enormous screen. Or, for those of you who don’t mind a helping hand from a walkthrough, you could enter portrait mode, have your game on the bottom half of the screen and your guide on the top half. And then, of course, you have the traditional handheld format for those cramped train journeys.
All of this sounds very fun in theory, but there was nothing about my hands-on time with the Legion Go Fold that suggested this could be a reality anytime soon. Because boy, was this thing flimsy. So much so that the guy who played with it before me broke it. Twice. I managed to avoid damaging it myself, but it still felt quite unstable in my hands. I certainly wouldn’t be happy taking it on the go after spending hundreds of pounds on it.
