r/LegionGo

I bought a brand new pair of go 2 controllers for £107 on ebay for my go 1 and it feels like a new device!

I posted on here before about purchasing a legion go 1 for around £300 from cash converters as a replacement for my z1e go S that cost £700, and I have no regrets, but my unit has started to show its age. Poor battery life, overheating and worn controllers, so I replaced the paste with ptm 7950 which drastically improved cooling, replaced the battery, and now I’ve bought a pair of new controllers and it feels like a whole new device.

As for covering the gap, I had a case that went over both controllers and had the idea of cutting off the sides so it went over the console only and it does an incredible job of hiding the gap without using one of those 3d printed frames which I personally find to be pretty ugly. I was also considering getting a dbrand skin for my go 2 controllers since the plastic looks easy to scratch. It does look pretty odd without filling in those gaps

I have owned my legion go s for about 4 months and I have been enjoying since the day I received it. But today whilst on a flight home, its display delaminated. Anyone else with this issue or is it just mine? Also, anything is there anything I can do instead of sending it to the service center?

Edit: It is a z2 go with 16gb of ram and 512gb of storage. Also don't be discouraged from buying one due my experience, they are the best option for handhelds you can get on the market.

I would've totally bought an accessory like this from Lenovo. I'm sure it would've been a lot more polished too.

Wireless speakers on rails. Powered by the pogo pins.

The next iteration is gonna be ill. Patent Pending. Lol

I picked up a z1e 1 TB with docking station and Bluetooth mouse and Bluetooth keyboard for 270.

Then I got bored and I went to my 3D printer and now this is how my Legion go looks.

Ok so I posted a while back on transitioning from a Legion Go 1 Z1E to a Legion Go 2 Z2… I’ve got a month or two under my belt with the Go 2 and all I can say is it’s absolutely perfect.

The form and shape is sublime. The battery is brilliant, seems to last a really good length of time. The Go 2 feels so perfect and refined. The OLED screen is sublime.

My use case is mainly emulators and relatively easy Steam titles, nothing overly taxing in terms of AAA titles. Hence the Z2, not Z2E. I run Bazzite OS and it’s so easy and intuitive. Perfect for my use case of the machine being dedicated to gaming. For me trying to run a handheld also as a ‘proper’ pc system makes no sense. Too fiddly and annoying.

I don’t have any issues with the size and weight. I also run a Retroid pocket 5 and the Legion is like the big brother to it, I like the fact there is an overlap in terms of some systems I love to run on both, some I now prefer on the smaller machine (GBA/GBC for example) and some are great on either. Anything MAME / FBNEO I love on the Go 2 due to screen size. Anything 8 bit / 16 bit I actually also prefer on Go 2 for the screen size.

It feels like the perfect machine. I love it.

The picture doesn’t really do it justice, but on the bottom left of the right joystick, it’s as if one of the LEDs have died as it is noticeably dimmer no matter what I seem to do.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Whatever the cause is, it doesn’t seem to be affecting the usability so far.

Coming up on a year with my Z2 Extreme Legion Go 2. Mostly used it for AAA on the road and couch sessions when I don't want to sit at the desk.

Spent a few weeks going back and forth. The SteamOS version of the Go 2 dropped in June and I looked at it seriously for a beat, but same silicon means same ceiling, so it wasn't going to solve what I was actually hitting. The ROG Xbox Ally X was the other one on my shortlist, ergonomics get talked up rightfully so, but I've gotten too used to the detach + kickstand setup and didn't want to give it up. Landed on the X2 Mini Pro after that, ordered the base config and waited for August.

Landed early this month. Two weeks in, here's the read outside of the launch cycle. On the chip:

Ran through my usual test loop: Cyberpunk with the 2.4 patch, Black Myth Wukong, Elden Ring, and enough Persona 5 Royal to feel the frame pacing. Cyberpunk is where the delta actually shows up. Same 1200p Steam Deck preset that had my Go 2 hovering mid-40s plugged in is running well over 90 on the new machine. Cranked to 1200p high with FSR quality it holds around 60-70 through most of Night City, drops into the mid 50s in Dogtown crowds. Wukong is the one that finally pushed me to do this. On the Go 2 I was running Low with FSR performance to keep it playable, on the 8060S at 80W it does medium with FSR quality and stays around 50-55 outside of the tougher boss fights.

Same OLED, and the swappable battery is the sleeper win:

Panel is essentially the same one my Go 2 has, which is what I wanted, no downgrade or new tuning to learn. Where I underestimated the change is the 85Wh removable battery. Been on two flights since the unit arrived and swapping to a spare pack mid-flight instead of hunting for an outlet is one of those small things you don't know you needed until you have it. The Go 2's 74Wh being sealed to the frame was never a dealbreaker but the difference the first time you pop a fresh pack on is real.

Magnetic keyboard is fine for what it is. I use it for short text stuff maybe once a session. Not something you'd want to draft a long doc on comfortably.

Where it isn't a slam dunk

Weight. Main body without battery is 719g, with the 380g battery attached you're at roughly 1.1kg, against 920g on my Go 2. The extra 180g doesn't read as much on paper but you feel it after 40 minutes pure handheld. I've defaulted to kickstand + detach for anything past a short session, which is what the design leans into anyway, but calibrate the expectation if you assume Go 2 weight.

The chip situation. Got covered heavily in June but worth flagging if you missed it. Unit was originally teased with the AI Max+ 395 and got quietly swapped to the 388 partway through the campaign, which is half the CPU cores (same GPU). Some folks are still salty about it. For gaming it doesn't matter because the CPU wasn't ever going to be the bottleneck, but if you were counting on Blender or heavy compile work on this the cut is real.

Two machines is more than I planned on owning, and honestly Go 2 users bumping into the GPU ceiling in AAA are probably the only Legion crowd this actually makes sense for. If your library is mostly indie or older stuff the Z2E is still plenty. If you're on the ceiling I was on, this is the closest thing I've found to a bigger Go 2.

I want to price my Z1E 32gb, 2tb. Any good idea for a price range? I have the original box and it comes with a kill switch set, skin, screen protector, and a spare skin from dbrand.

I want to buy it, but is the screen big when you look at it, how is the colors and clarity?

The handheld is perfect but the one problem I have is the battery constantly is dying. So it’s plugged in to my wall basically half of the time. When I’m just trying to play in bed. Would this be a good purchase for that? It’s $60 dollars for me right now

What has been your experience with the OG Legion Go? 16gb still kicking it? I am playing FF7 Rebirth and consuming over 18gb ram and 10gb vram which goes as high as 11gb. It seems 32gb is necessary for future proof. Not sure if other games consume resources as this. If yes, which titles?

Hello All so i decided to get a birthday present for a close friend, anyways i ordered and i shipped it back, this is what came in the box, legion go s, 16 gigs of ram, windows 11, what we got is a unworking birthday present, well it got shipped back within the hour as i contacted amazon on it, so its been shipped back, but i guess i will try to get a asus rog xbox ally maybe next month for there late birthday, but i wanted to share this with you all, so here it is.