Lenovo LOQ 15: The Only Gaming Laptop Worth Buying Below $1,500

Prices on gaming laptops are out of control. The ongoing memory shortage has made laptops more expensive across the board, but it’s hit gaming laptops especially hard. Some manufacturers have even resorted to launching “new” gaming laptops in 2026 with the RTX 4050 as the starting configuration—and that graphics card is more than three years old.

游戏笔记本电脑的价格已经失控。持续的内存短缺导致各类笔记本电脑价格全面上涨，而游戏本受到的冲击尤为严重。一些制造商甚至在 2026 年推出以 RTX 4050 作为起步配置的“新款”游戏本，而这款显卡已经是三年前的产品了。

Given this landscape, there’s really only one gaming laptop under $1,500 that I feel comfortable recommending. That’s the Lenovo LOQ 15. It’s not the thinnest or most powerful gaming laptop in the world, but for this price, there’s nothing else like it.

鉴于这种市场环境，在 1500 美元以下，我唯一能放心推荐的游戏本就是联想 LOQ 15。它并非世界上最轻薄或性能最强的游戏本，但在这一价位段，它无可替代。

It’s not that the price of the LOQ 15 hasn’t gone up over the past year alongside its gaming-laptop brethren. (It certainly has.) For the first few months of 2026—the good old days—it was selling for less than $1,000. But even then, it was technologically ahead of its rivals in a number of ways, offering strong performance paired with a high-quality IPS display. So many cheap gaming laptops come with pitifully desaturated screens that put a damper on the gaming experience. That’s really what sets the LOQ 15 apart from the competition.

并不是说 LOQ 15 在过去一年里没有随其他游戏本一起涨价（它确实涨了）。在 2026 年的头几个月——那段美好的旧时光里——它的售价还不到 1000 美元。但即便在那时，它在技术上也领先于竞争对手，提供了强劲的性能和高质量的 IPS 显示屏。许多廉价游戏本配备的屏幕色彩饱和度极低，严重影响了游戏体验。这正是 LOQ 15 区别于竞争对手的关键所在。

Also significant is the fact that, right now, you can buy the LOQ 15 with an RTX 5060 for just $1,300. That’s not any cheaper than it normally has been (at least not for the past few months). However, the RTX 5060 is a big upgrade over the RTX 5050, especially with the 100 watts of power that the system can throw at it. Every game I tested could play at well over 60 frames per second at the medium preset, including heavier games like Black Myth: Wukong and Monster Hunter Wilds. You can always push frame rates higher by adjusting settings further or by adding a dash of upscaling.

同样值得注意的是，目前你可以以 1300 美元的价格买到搭载 RTX 5060 的 LOQ 15。这并不比平时的价格更便宜（至少过去几个月里一直如此）。然而，RTX 5060 相比 RTX 5050 有了巨大的提升，特别是在系统能为其提供 100 瓦功耗的情况下。我测试的每一款游戏在中等画质预设下都能达到远超 60 帧的流畅度，包括《黑神话：悟空》和《怪物猎人：荒野》这类大型游戏。你还可以通过进一步调整设置或开启少量超分辨率技术来提高帧率。

Amazon has the RTX 5060 configuration, which also comes with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage, for $1,300, but Lenovo also has a killer deal on the RTX 5050 configuration that’s about as cheap as it gets: $999 for an RTX 5050 (and otherwise identical specs). I’ve tested a number of other gaming laptops that sell for around this price, such as the MSI Cyborg A16 and the Acer Nitro V 16, and none can compete with the LOQ 15. I’ve also tested the Alienware 15 and Lenovo LOQ Essential 15 recently, and both suffer from the same problem.

亚马逊上搭载 RTX 5060、16GB 内存和 512GB 存储空间的配置售价为 1300 美元，但联想官网针对 RTX 5050 配置也提供了极具吸引力的优惠，价格几乎触底：999 美元即可入手 RTX 5050 版本（其他规格相同）。我测试过许多同价位的其他游戏本，例如微星 Cyborg A16 和宏碁暗影骑士·擎 V 16，它们都无法与 LOQ 15 相提并论。我最近还测试了外星人 15 和联想 LOQ Essential 15，它们也都存在同样的问题。

As much as I wish I could recommend a budget gaming laptop that’s newer, none I’ve tried have successfully dethroned the Lenovo LOQ 15. While you could wait until Black Friday to see if prices dip further, note that I haven’t seen much fluctuation over the past few months. For example, it wasn’t on a deeper sale during the October Amazon Prime Day—and yet, it was still the best gaming laptop deal you could get.

尽管我希望能推荐一款更新的预算型游戏本，但我尝试过的机型中没有一款能成功取代联想 LOQ 15 的地位。虽然你可以等到“黑色星期五”看看价格是否会进一步下跌，但请注意，过去几个月里我并没有观察到太大的价格波动。例如，在十月份的亚马逊会员日期间，它并没有进行更大幅度的促销，但即便如此，它依然是你所能买到的性价比最高的游戏本。