Lenovo Legion 9i: 16″ gaming laptop with Intel Core i9, up to RTX 4090, starting at RM16,039

Aside from the Legion Go, Lenovo has today also announced the arrival of the Legion 9i, their latest gaming laptop that packs pretty much the best hardware you can get into a tiny, mostly portable machine for any gamer out where with deep pockets and a need for performance on the go.

Lenovo Legion 9i Malaysia pricing and availability

The Lenovo Legion 9i is now available from the Lenovo Malaysia Official Online store with a starting price tag of RM16,039.01. That gets you the Legion 9i with an Intel Core i9-13980HX, 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD as well as an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080. If you want to go fully balls to the wall though, you can soup up your Legion 9i even more by upgrading the graphics card to an RTX 4090 for an additional RM2,200, or getting 64GB of RAM for an extra RM140 and up to 2TB of storage for RM340 if you get dual 1TB drives, or for RM520 more if you want a single 2TB drive.

Lenovo Legion 9i specs

The Lenovo Legion 9i is more of a desktop replacement than your average laptop, meant for the very occasional time when you need to move your setup around rather than being for pure portability, especially considering that this is a 2.5kg beast of a machine. It comes with a 16-inch, Mini LED display in a 16:10 aspect ratio, pushing a 3200 x 1200p resolution and is capable of a 165Hz refresh rate, a 3ms response time, a peak brightness of 1200nits and covers the DCI-P3 colour gamut as well as supports NVIDIA G-SYNC, DisplayHDR 1000 and AMD Freesync.

Under the hood is the 13th Gen Intel Core i9-13980HX, mated to up to 64GB of DDR5 5600MHz RAM and up to 2TB of PCIe Gen 4 NVMe storage. Graphics meanwhile get taken care of by your choice of either the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 laptop graphics card or the even more powerful GeForce RTX 4090 GPU instead, with both running at a 150W TGP. Lenovo also added its own LA2 chip, its own custom dedicated AI processor that adds a ‘Smart FPS’ feature, which is supposedly able to dynamically tune your system in real time to squeeze every little bit of performance out of the laptop. Keeping it all cool then is an integrated liquid cooling system.

You’ll find plenty of I/O here too, with the Legion 9i packing two USB-C Thunderbolt 4 ports, two USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 ports, a USB-C 3.2 Gen 1 port, an SD card reader, a HDMI 2.1 port, an RJ45 Ethernet port and a 3.5mm combo audio jack, as well as support for WiFI 7 and Bluetooth 5.1 wireless connectivity. Other features of note include a 99.99Whr battery, a full size Lenovo TrueStrike keyboard, a pair of 2W stereo speakers, a 1080p webcam with an eShutter and of course, plenty of RGB lighting all over the Legion 9i. The chassis itself meanwhile comes in a Carbon Black colourway with a ‘forged carbon’ design and finish.