Microsoft’s new Copilot button takes its place near the space bar.
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LOQ IS LENOVO’S new budget gaming brand, and it takes a lot of design cues from the older IdeaPad 3 Gaming machines, though gains an extra cooling vent on the side. It’s well-priced, though definitely worth paying the extra few hundred bucks for the uprated model we’re reviewing here. With an RTX 4060 and 13th-gen Core i7 CPU, it’s still not going to be competing for a place at the top of the pile when it comes to gaming framerates, but it does a good enough job considering the price point.
As a fairly standard 15-inch laptop, there’s one thing that stands out about the LOQ 15, and that’s the keyboard. Seriously. It’s extremely comfortable to type on, and Lenovo has resisted the urge to do anything silly like replace the WASD keys with see-through caps. There’s RGB lighting behind it, because that’s a law or something, but otherwise, it’s very comfortable to use, the round-edged keys sinking into their beds with enough resistance that you’re never left wondering if a keypress has connected. The trackpad isn’t bad, too, although an external gaming mouse will probably make it redundant.