Lenovo is working on Legion Go Gen 2 and Legion Go Lite handheld gaming PCs

The Lenovo Legion Go will celebrate its first birthday later this year, and it looks like the handheld gaming PC could soon be part of a growing family. Rumors about an upcoming Lenovo Legion Go Lite handheld have been making the rounds for months, but now it looks like Lenovo has confirmed that at least two new models are on the way: a Legion Go Lite and a 2nd-gen Legion Go.

When I say “confirmed,” I don’t mean that the company put out a press release or gave us any detailed specs or anything. What happened is that the company mentioned both of the upcoming handhelds in a product brochure for the new Legion Go USB-C Dock.

Lenovo introduced the dock in August as an accessory for the original Legion Go that makes it easy to connect an external display, Ethernet cable, and USB peripherals while charging the handheld.

But now the company has released documents that, among other things, confirm that the dock supports at least three handhelds:

• Lenovo Legion Go Gen One
• Lenovo Legion Go Gen Two
• Lenovo Legion Go Lite

The first-gen Legion Go features an 8.8 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel, 144 Hz OLED display, an AMD Ryzen 1 Extreme processor, 16GB of RAM, up to a 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, and a pair of detachable controllers.

It’s not entirely clear what will set the new Legion Go Gen Two and Legion Go Lite apart from the original, but there’s been some (possibly disputed) evidence that the Lite model could have a smaller screen. I wouldn’t be surprised if it also had a lower display resolution, a lower refresh rate, or made a few other sacrifices to help keep the cost low.

As for the Legion Go Gen Two, odds are that it’ll bring a processor upgrade. AMD is expected to have a Ryzen Z2 Extreme chip for handheld gaming PCs scheduled to launch in 2025. But some handheld gaming PC makers have already decided that they don’t need to stick with AMD’s custom processors for handhelds and have instead opted for laptop chips like the Ryzen 7 8840HS.

So it’s possible that if Lenovo wants to launch a Legion Go Gen 2 before the Z2 Extreme processor is available, we could instead see the company opt for an AMD Strix Point laptop-class processor (or maybe even an Intel Lunar Lake chip, but the jury is out on whether those will be truly competitive with AMD’s latest processors – they have good GPUs in theory, but AMD has better graphics drivers, which tends to lead to better real-world gaming performance).

All of which is to say, here’s what we (probably) know so far: there are two new Lenovo Legion Go-branded handheld gaming PCs on the way. And if they’re compatible with the new Legion Go Dock, it’s a safe bet that they have 40 Gbps USB4 ports. And that’s about all we know for certain. But based on the names, it’s likely that one will be a cheaper (and maybe smaller) handheld, while the other will likely bring some sort of a spec bump.

via VideoCardz