LG - gram 15” OLED Laptop - Intel Evo Platform 13th Gen Intel Core i7 with 16GB RAM - 1TB NVMe SSD - Blue
Model: 15Z90RT-K.AAB8U1
SKU: 6542076
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Customers recognize the gram 15” OLED Laptop for its lightweight design and fantastic screen. However, some users have expressed concerns about its battery life, wishing it could hold a longer charge.
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The thinness of this laptop is such a head turner that upon removing it from the packaging, I just admired it, like a work of art. Then I immediately began searching my desk for objects to place next to it for comparison. Lip balm, my mousepad, earbuds, the power adapter it comes with – anything to just make my brain explode with how thin this is. The kicker: the length of a microSD card is taller than this laptop when closed. Officially it’s .43” thick. MIND=BLOWN. Along with that thinness comes a reduction in weight that rivals nearly any electronic device in my home. At just around 2lbs this thing weighs practically nothing. Comparatively, it’s only 1 pound more than my new Pixel Tablet – except this is a full featured laptop. I truly enjoy the opportunity to bring my laptop with me and use it outside of my home office. And I’ve enjoyed showing it off to folks, too! While talking up this laptop’s physical appearance, let us dive into the rest of it! The 15” OLED anti-glare screen looks truly fantastic. It’s clear, bright, and very pretty. It’s made me notice the difference in my other non-OLED screens around the house. The keyboard is nearly full sized. Many 15” laptops do not include a numpad, but this one does. However, fitting in all those keys does require a few sacrifices. The arrow keys are mini versions, as well as the numbers of the number pad itself, including a similar sized enter key. I’m glad it’s there, but muscle memory from a full-size keyboard does take some getting used to. The function keys are also a bit more diminutive, but like the number pad, still plenty functional. Frankly, the only odd duck here is the power button, placed on the top rightmost point of the keyboard among the other keys. Surrounded by *, +, and the Num Lock key I have yet to hit it, but I can see myself accidentally putting the computer to sleep while in the zone. The touchpad is nice and metallic and has been a joy to use; both being precise and response. There feels like ample room for your palms when typing or using the touchpad. PROTIP: Windows allows you to customize gestures. For me, it was easier to adjust the touchpad gestures and allow four fingers sliding up and down to control volume up and down than it was to hit FN+F11/12. When the volume is too low or loud, you tend to want to adjust it quickly. You can also, via the LG Smart Assistant app, lock the FN key, too. Lastly, ports! This is where the thinness of the laptop requires some more sacrifices. You’ve got a combined microphone/headphone jack, and three USB-C ports. Two of those three USB-C ports are Thunderbolt 4 ports. Think of them like a super-USB-C port. It combines a power port, USB port, and a video out port. Yes, this does mean that you do NOT have larger USB-A ports or an HDMI out. TAKE NOTE OF THIS! There’s a good chance your external monitor or mouse may not be usable with his laptop out of the box because of its only USB-C connection. Should you need to connect such devices, your best bet is to get a small Thunderbolt compatible hub. Most will provide a plethora of extra ports so that you can charge, use another screen and several types of USB devices at once. The laptop is charged via USB-C. Included is a 65watt fast charger, although I’ve been fine using other, slower, chargers with it. As for using the laptop itself, if you’ve used any Windows machine, this will be no different. Preloaded with Windows 11, it’s a fairly simple procedure to get going. But, as with all Windows machines, you’ve got your first day of work cut out for you. Update, update, update, install what items you want/need, remove what you don’t. In terms of ‘bloatware’ there’s not too much pre-installed outside of the LG programs, but there’s a few items that you may/may not want, such as McAfee anti-virus. The LG preinstalled software is kind of a mess of several apps, but nothing is particularly intrusive. There’s an update tool, which helps keep you up to date with important system updates. There’s also the Smart Assistant, which is the main tool for your specific laptop settings such as locking the function key, keyboard lighting, shortcuts, USB-C charging when the laptop is off, color setting for the monitor, and more. There’s an emphasis on the newer Windows Hello feature of logging in with facial recognition. It works well in a variety of lighting situations I’ve been in and it’s neat as heck. There’s several LG provided applications that can take advantage of facial recognition and tracking. They do things like allow the computer to lock when it doesn’t detect you, move/snap windows when using multiple screens, and a security feature to identify when someone is creeping at you and looking at your screen from behind you. That one definitely gave me a few false positives that ever so briefly had me convinced there was someone else in my house with me. I have no empirical data, but I’d imagine that constant use of camera functionalities will result in some decreased performance and/or battery life. Apart from using the facial recognition to log into windows, I’ve not really used these additional programs but I’d consider it if I was working more from public spaces. As for performance, this laptop has handled everything I use for my work day well. This includes but is not limited to having the following open at once: Chrome with 3 tabs, Firefox with 3-5 tabs, Spotify, Slack, Discord, QuickBooks Online desktop app, and Microsoft Office (typically excel or word). I’ve not had any issues handling this, nor when watching online video at full screen. I will say that after a while of using Google Meet for a video call, I did notice the bottom of the laptop getting a little too hot to keep on my lap/hold, but no performance issues. Regarding performance, this is not a laptop I’d use for power computer tasks. You could probably run some simple games on there, but once you get into 3D graphics – be it for work or gaming – you’re probably going to notice that the integrated graphics chip is simply not enough. While the Intel 13th generation processor is pretty good and they do advertise you can do video editing, you’ll have to use your own judgement and do your own research to see if this can handle such specific tasks well. Lots of power-hungry applications need a lot more: dedicated graphics and lots of cooling. This is a laptop great for daily productivity and entertainment, but likely less so for gaming and other intense usages. As far as battery life goes, I’m happy to report that this has been excellent so far. I haven’t done any stress testing, but this battery has lasted for days with sporadic usage. It’s going to vary depending on what you’re doing, but I’m sure you’ll easily get a whole day without any concern. Honestly the weakest part of this system is likely the speakers. And, well, they’re fine. Again, the thinness of such a laptop requires some sacrifices and the speakers are part of it. They’re perfectly acceptable and worked very well for background music and even for video conferencing. However, if you’re after GOOD sound, you’ll want to connect to speakers or a headset. You’ve got Bluetooth and a headphone jack, so you’re set to connect to anything necessary. And, to be honest, I’ve yet to see any laptop that holds a candle to any external speaker of headphones. I really don’t have anything bad to say about this laptop. For a daily driver computer, it simply works. If I had to find anything to complain about, it’s that it’s almost TOO small. I do have a real fear of snapping it in half, likely because I’ve been brought up to feel that anything this thin and light is cheap. This is not cheap, however. This is a quality laptop through and through. Yes, there are some minor sacrifices to obtain such a small size, but if you’re the type of person who is working from the road a lot and don’t require the needs of a much larger, beefier machine then you’re going to be thrilled at how portable this is. As for me, I’m looking forward to future travel, just so I can bring this laptop with me.
Posted by Eric
The LG Gram is an amazing laptop. This is my 2nd Gram. This thing is incredibly lightweight and slim. Feels so nice, perfect to tote around at school or for travel since it’s so light. The screen is fabulous looking, bright and crisp to look at. Set up was easy, but needed a lot of updates. Important note, this is not a touch screen but don’t let that deter you! The screen is so clear to look at you wouldn’t want smudgy fingerprints on it! The keyboard is nice, includes a compact 10 key, responds well, & is not loud. I found the facial recognition doesn’t work great, despite me trying to configure it a few times, but that isn’t a deal breaker in the slightest. Battery life seems just ok, but it does charge quickly. The charge cord and adapter are small, another bonus for your bag when lugging your laptop around! Plugged in this is great for movie watching with the incredible screen. Overall I think this is a fabulous laptop, and a great choice for students or frequent travelers who want the larger screen.
Posted by skylord
I loved everything about this laptop, great picture quality, easy to use and have never had a better product. I do wish the battery would have a longer charge than it did. Doesn’t matter now since my silly self broke and Best Buy no longer carries them-in the stores at least
Posted by AmandaZ