Lenovo LOQ Essential 15ARP11 gaming laptop, Digi Mart USA News (United States and Canada): Lenovo has released its LOQ Essential 15ARP11 budget gaming laptop in the United States and Canada, according to a publisher report by Notebookcheck. The company had started selling a different budget model, the LOQ Essential 15IRH11, in both countries less than a month earlier, while the LOQ Essential 15IPH11 has not yet reached North America.
The 15-inch LOQ Essential 15ARP11 replaces the LOQ Essential 15ARP10E and uses newer Nvidia laptop GPUs. In North America it is offered with the GeForce RTX 5050, while the LOQ Essential 15ARP10E remains available with the GeForce RTX 3050, GeForce RTX 3050A and GeForce RTX 4050.
Notebookcheck states that its benchmarks show the GeForce RTX 5050 delivers a 51% performance improvement over the GeForce RTX 4050 and 98% over the GeForce RTX 3050. The new model keeps the same Ryzen 7 170 processor as its predecessor, paired with a 65 W TGP GPU.
Lenovo claims the 60 Wh battery provides over 20% longer battery life than the LOQ Essential 15ARP10E. The laptop also includes 16 GB of DDR5-4800 RAM, a 1 TB SSD, Bluetooth 5.3 and Wi-Fi 6 connectivity.
The display is a matte IPS panel with 1080p resolution, 300 nits peak brightness, a 144 Hz refresh rate and 100% sRGB colour space coverage. The report says the LOQ Essential 15ARP11 currently costs $1,892.99 in the US and CAD 2,630.99 in Canada.
Notebookcheck notes that Lenovo’s PSREF website indicates Ryzen 5 150 or GeForce RTX 5060 configurations will not be sold in North America. The publisher also suggests Lenovo may discount the new model in the coming weeks, based on the pricing pattern of the LOQ Essential 15IRH11, though this is not confirmed by Lenovo.
