Nearly two months on from its reveal at IFA 2023, the Lenovo Legion Go is finally arriving in Malaysia, with interested buyers able to order the handheld gaming PC on the official Lenovo website. With that comes official pricing—and it looks like the Legion Go will be more expensive spec-by-spec than its only rival, the Asus ROG Ally.
Lenovo Legion Go Malaysia pricing and availability
Just like the Ally, the Legion Go is available in two configurations—one with the AMD Ryzen Z1 processor, the other with the more powerful Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Prices are as follows:
- Lenovo Legion Go (83E1001BMJ), AMD Ryzen Z1 – RM3,099
- Lenovo Legion Go (83E1001AMJ), AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme – RM3,399
This means the base Legion Go with the Z1 chip is RM300 more expensive than the equivalent ROG Ally. However, the Z1 Extreme model is only RM100 more expensive than its rival, narrowing the price gap between the Z1 and Z1 Extreme variants to just RM300. Lenovo’s website states that both models will ship within six to eight weeks.
Lenovo Legion Go specs and features
The Legion Go is but the latest gaming handheld to enter the market, following in the footsteps of the Steam Deck and the aforementioned Ally. However, its form factor benefits from several key advantages—most notably the addition of detachable controllers on either side of the display, à la the Nintendo Switch.
Lenovo says the controllers have been sculpted to fit the hand, providing a more comfortable grip compared to the Switch’s surfboard-like items. They come with the usual ABXY buttons, analogue sticks (which have Hall effect sensors to minimise joystick drift) and shoulder buttons and triggers, plus a touchpad on the right controller in a similar fashion to the Steam Deck. The right controller can even be attached to a magnetic dock, allowing for more precise aiming when playing first-person shooters.
These controllers flank an 8.8-inch WQXGA (2560×1600) IPS LCD touchscreen that’s larger and has a higher resolution than the Ally’s seven-inch Full HD panel, and it boasts a higher 144Hz refresh rate. The display also covers 97% of the DCI-P3 colour gamut and has up to 500 nits of brightness.
Aside from that, the specs are pretty similar to the Ally. As mentioned earlier, the base Legion Go comes with a AMD Ryzen Z1 processor, incorporating a six-core, 12-thread Zen 4 CPU and four integrated RDNA 2 GPU cores. Step up to the Z1 Extreme model and you get an eight-core, 16-thread CPU and 12 GPU cores. Both models come with 16GB of 7500MHz LPDDR5X RAM and a 512GB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD.
All this is juiced by a 49.2Wh battery that’s quite a bit larger than what you’d find in the Ally, with the detachable controllers housing another 900mAh of battery each. Other features include dual 2W speakers, six-axis IMU gyro controls, WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity, a 3.5mm audio combo jack, a microSD card slot and two USB-C 4.0 ports with DisplayPort 1.4 support. The Legion Go ships with Windows 11 Home and Lenovo’s Legion Space launcher for controlling settings and launching games.
