The Best $500 Gaming Laptop! Lenovo LOQ Gaming Laptop Review

I picked up a Lenovo LOQ Gaming laptop for just $500! This is the best $500 gaming laptop I've ever seen....actually, the only one I have seen! So, here's an in-depth review of the Lenovo LOQ 15IRH8 with an i5 13420H, RTX 2050, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB NVMe SSD before I give it to one of my kids for Christmas! Enjoy!
Here's the link to Coscto, where I bought it...it's NOT $500 anymore:
www.costco.com/Lenovo-LOQ-15....
Here's the closest laptop with similar specs that I could find on Amazon for less than $600:
Warning- It's probably not as good
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Here's the SSD I would probably add to the empty slot:
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Here's the RAM I would probably upgrade to:
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[@miladmf1713]

Good job

[@henrikg1388]

I'm surprised you found one with a 2050 GPU. Thought they stop selling them long ago, especially in laptops. Quite a crappy card TBH. I've only seen them selling with 40-series and some odd version with a 3050 for the real budget ones.

[@miladmf1713]

Does it support fast charge ?

[@commentcrusader2295]

I just bought mine. I5 13500H with a 4050 and 1TB SSD with 8Gb ram for 770 on Amazon. Which i also went ahead and purchased 2x16 of DDR5 for an extra hundred.

[@mattywillis]

Back to $500 @ Costco now

[@theoc007]

did this one come with 2 sticks of ram? I saw some other loq model reviews with 16gb using one slot so now I am a little confused lol

[@typerightseesight]

That things got all the pipes and 2 fans in it for $500?

[@haynknight2002]

So how did your child like this laptop? I recently bought a gaming laptop and my son is now asking for one. I'm not about to buy him the same as me because that's too much money but I saw this at Costco and thought this might be a viable option.

[@kkuran371]

How well would that 2050 run against games like cyberpunk 2077

[@sichawakalimosi256]

Which ssd type did u say goes in the other empty slot

[@paras.p1]

Brother, does it support 32x2 gb= 64 gb of ram?

[@hetdonga413]

any solid reason to not like McAfee🤔

[@resilientfool7191]

does it have rgb customization keyboard?

[@abikrishnaagodeeswaran1363]

how much hours does the battery lasts in single charge

[@wishingW3L]

This is not a good deal at all with that 2050. You got robbed. I've seen the 4050 LOQ selling for $600 and also has a 1TB SSD. And the 4050 can do frame generation and dlss3, so is leagues above a 3060 mobile.