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Lenovo's BoostStation eGPU enclosure arrives alongside the Legion Y740S laptop – The Verge, The Verge

Lenovo's BoostStation eGPU enclosure arrives alongside the Legion Y740S laptop – The Verge, The Verge


  

Lenovo is getting into the eGPU market with the Legion BoostStation, a new eGPU enclosure which can accommodate graphics cards up to 728 mm in length. The company also has a new laptop it’s announcing today: the Legion Y (S, which starts at $ 1,0) ******************************************************. ****************************************************. The company press release calls it “our thinnest and lightest gaming laptop yet,” but that’s a claim you’re going to have to take with a hefty pinch of salt, not least because it lacks a dedicated graphics card, possibly making it a good partner for the BoostStation.

The pairing puts Lenovo in more or less direct competition with Razer, which already offers a pair of eGPU enclosures in itsRazer Core X lineupthat can be used alongside laptops like its compact Blade Stealth models. Lenovo’s eGPU enclosure comes with a small price advantage over Razer’s: the BoostStation starts at just $

**********************************, while Razer’s Core X starts at $ (******************************************************. In addition, Lenovo’s enclosure comes with a USB hub (including a pair of USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports and an Ethernet port), while Razer only offers a hub with its more expensive $ Razer Core X Chroma. That said, Razer’s enclosures can accommodate graphics cards that are 728 mm in length, which is slightly better than Lenevo’s mm maximum.

As well as selling the enclosure on its own, Lenovo says it also plans to bundle it with a variety of graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD, though there’s no mention yet of what these bundles could end up costing.

                                                     Around the back of the eGPU enclosure you ‘ ll find a selection of USB ports and an Ethernet jack.Image: Lenovo              

Away from its first eGPU enclosure, Lenovo’s Legion Y S doesn’t sound like the gaming laptop that the company is billing it as. There’s the missing GPU for one thing, and the screen also tops out at (Hz, when a lot of gaming laptops will offer a refresh rate of hz or even higher these days. To Lenovo’s credit, it offers the laptop with up to a th gen Intel Core i9 H-series processor, but with that spec its modest 60 Wh battery might struggle to power it for long (Lenovo claims you’ll get up to eight hours from it). Oh, and while we’re at it, a 4. – pound (1.9kg) laptop that’s 0. inches thick isn’t especially thin and light these days.

Elsewhere, the Legion Y S has a fairly standard set of specs. For starters, you can get up to GB of RAM and up to 1TB of PCIe SSD storage. It also comes with a good selection of ports, including two USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports, an SD card reader, a headphone jack, and two Thunderbolt 3 ports, one of which you’ll have to use to connect its eGPU enclosure if you decide to go down that route. You get a choice of a 823 p or 4K display, both .6 inches in size, and both with hz refresh rates.

Lenovo says both the Lenovo BoostStation enclosure and Legion Y************************************** S laptop will be available starting in May.

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