LG gram 17" Touch Screen Laptop - Copilot+ PC - Intel Core Ultra 7 Series 2 with 32GB Memory - 1TB SSD - Obsidian Black

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• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Light weight, solid build and very capable Laptop

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  This laptop is a full size 17” with very fine screen and expanded keyboard. It is made of special military grade alloys that make it very light but robust. I was amazed how light weight it is. LG claims it to be 3.2lbs nad 0.74” thin. Very possible and honestly enjoyable. It is equipped with several connectivity ports, long lasting battery and high resolution sharp screen. The LG gram is nice to touch and easy to carry around. The keyboard needs some getting used to. Not the best keyboard but it is very firm click. The key travel is good. It can get a bit noisy but it is very premium. The Keyboard has enough spaces between the keys but the key-caps are a bit on the small side. The keyboard back-light is perfect. It has low and high setting. I find the low light setting to be good enough for any time use. Keys are firm and not rattling at all. The power button is also a finger print sensor. Very easy to setup and very fast logging in. The track pad is ok. I have smaller laptops with bigger pad. It is responsive and good for most of the tasks. I use the fast double tap and 2 fingers tap instead of the clicks. The click is also fine! It is available anywhere at the lower half of the pad. The Keyboard is seating high (toward the screen) offering a good space to rest your wrists. The LG gram is also low profile which is good for easy and nice typing. The screen is big. After using several 14” screens, you appreciate the very nice 17” WQXGA 16:10 display that can handle a very fine resolution. Nice to look at for long time doing office works, browsing the net and even watching videos. The colors are very vivid and the brightness can be set very high. It is also touch screen! Yes, the 17” is a touch screen capable. Supporting good gestures like pinch to zoom and click to select and slide. It can be useful sometimes. LG equipped this gram laptop with Intel Core Ultra 7. It is handling tasks very well while also being efficient. Battery lasts ~7h+ with above average usage. LG combined the Intel Core Ultra 7 with 32GB RAM and Intel Arc Graphics. All with 1TB NVMe storage. While it is not game dedicated graphic card, it is still very capable to provide above average experience. I’ve tried to put the LG gram to stress, the fans came on at full speed. They are not as loud as I expected. Running for good amount of time at 100% without any issues. The LG has a small charger block of 65W only that connects to the laptop by USB-C to any USB-C ports on the side. The laptop speakers are not that loud. They are clear and just ok. Full stereo with good gaming sound effects capable. It has an audio jack for better private listening experience. The laptop has a camera, on the top side of the screen. It says it is an FHD. Good enough for video calls and meeting. It also provides nice features like the “Eye Contact”. Creepy but nice in the same time. The camera is also equipped with IR that helps tracking your face movements and contributes to some AI features available with this LG gram. On the same side as the audio jack, left, this LG gram has a full size HDMI output and 2 Thunderbolt USB-C connectors. On the other side, it has a Kensington lock, 2 Full USB 3 and Micro SD card slot. Ready for business. WiFi is very fast if you have a good router. The range is very good. It looks like the chassis material is contributing to the signal strength. The same for the Bluetooth: Easy to connect, fast files moving and good range. On the Operating System side, this laptop has Win11 with Copilot enabled (dedicated Copilot key). LG also added some features that can be useful when using multiple screens. AI would help you moving a window from one screen to another just by holding the window and looking to the other screen. Also, it has some security features to blur the screen if you are not looking at it, pause any video play, and blur your selected area if another person is standing behind you. LG link also provide a good integration for your phone with the computer through LG gram link. It supports both iOS and Android phones. It allows you to use most of your phone functions through the gram screen and keyboard. What good about this LG gram: - Lightweight, slim and premium build. - Bright and high definition 17” screen. - Large Keyboard with full layout. - Very good camera with nice features. - Good performance with long lasting battery. - Built by LG! What is not so great about this LG gram: - The Intel Core Ultra 7 performance is throttled to save energy. - The keyboard needs time to get used to. - Minimalist design. More on the classic side. - The price… I’d recommend getting this LG gram if you are looking for a 17” easy to carry laptop with good battery life and connectivity. It is good to acquire when on sale. LG builds solid electronics.

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  Posted 2 months ago by SL7977089

• Rated 4 out of 5 stars

  Lightweight Touchscreen PC with Great Battery Life

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  When you think 17” laptop, you’re not typically thinking “lightweight and portable”, but the LG Gram re-defines 17” portability. While it is still a 17” laptop and that takes up a certain amount of space no matter how much you trim down the weight, when you throw this in a backpack, the weight feels more like a 14” laptop. Another part of the appeal is how little fatigue you get from having it sit in your lap for hours at a time. --Performance Now you might be thinking, what might you be doing with a thin and light laptop in your lap for hours at a time? Well, gaming actually, if you wanted to. Now when I ran 3Dmark, I wasn’t really impressed with the gaming score. But when you put it in practice, it holds up well to casual gaming. My two favorite games to put against any GPU, dedicated or integrated, is New World, which I consider to be a bit demanding, but typical of most modern games, then I also like Tribes 3 Rivals which is a fast pace first person shooter which has you zipping around the map, timing your shots perfectly. With New World you’re loading several game elements, players, and the world around you. I found this to be very playable on the lowest settings and locking in the frames per second at 30. There was times where I would experience some stutter, but nothing that would keep the game from being playable. Tribes on the other hand, played wonderfully. I didn’t have any issues speeding around the map. I would advise, however, that you will want to make sure no other apps are running as it can cause some frame drops when something is loading in the background. --Display & Design I’ve touched on design, but there are a few more things to note here. I like that I have two USB Type C and are thunderbolt 4 standard. There are also two USB Type A ports for legacy devices. This isn’t LG’s fault, but I’d love to see USB type A as a thing of the past. There’s a full-size HDMI port for connecting to an external display as well as a headphone jack. You’ll need the headphone jack because the sound on this laptop is not good. I don’t really expect a great sound in a laptop since very few have done it well, and LG is no exception here. You do get a full-size keyboard with a number pad. I love laptops with a number pad as I spend a lot of time in excel files. The power button also doubles as a fingerprint reader. The display is decent. It’s nothing special, a 2k touchscreen LCD coming in at 60htz. With only 300 nits brightness, you’re not getting HDR video content. I maybe wouldn’t consider this laptop if content consumption is your priority. The lid is also a little wobbly. This is especially noticeable when you’re using the touch screen. If you’re tapping different elements on the screen, the wobble is a little frustrating, but scrolling and moving around elements on the screen works great. --Battery and AI Battery life has been impressive as well. The laptop charges with an included wall dongle and usb C to usb C cable. I did a full charge when I got the laptop, and I prefer to opt in to features that may use more battery. This includes the screen on the brightest setting as well as keyboard backlight. I easily use for several hours and not even get down to 50 percent. No issues so far with sleep and standby, still plenty of battery life when I close the lid for hours and come back to it. If you’re looking to get a copilot PC, you’ll find this laptop does that as well. Copilot is Microsoft’s AI assistant that can help you search the web, summarize notes, create excel formula’s and more. There’s a dedicated key that will pull up the copilot app and you can easily ask it questions. The AI is assisted by the intel core 7 processor with the NPU performing 47 TOPs and peak TOPs at 115. It sips power at only 17 watt base power, and boosts up to 37 watts. --Other Thoughts There’s a few other features worth mentioning. Keyboard and track pad are on par with most other laptops. I wasn’t a fan of the keyboard at first as it seemed a bit stiff, but I think as I got used to it, my typing improved. It comes with a built-in webcam as most do these days as video calls become more popular. It’s great to see Wi-Fi 7 on this although I have not been able to hit my peak, 1Gbps speeds, which I found to be a bit disappointing. I even went as far as adjusting my adapter settings to get the most out of the network card, but without much improvement. My assumption is it’s a power saving feature to not draw full power on the network card. LG also includes several apps of their own including adjusting system settings, downloading updates, troubleshooting and more. I also noticed McAfee trial installed and immediately uninstalled. --Summary Overall I think the benefit to this laptop for most will be the incredibly light weight for its size, excellent battery life, all packaged in a 17” form factor for those who want a full size keyboard and trackpad, as well as the extra screen real estate. I do think there’s a few things that could be better. The screen wobble is maybe the most annoying for me, as I see it from time to time with normal typing but it makes the touch screen less desirable to use. Also, the sound could maybe be tweaked. It does sound better when it’s on a flat surface but I think the appeal is how lightweight this computer is to use on your lap. It never felt hot and never got loud enough to be distracting, even when gaming. I would say this is a great fit for travel or if you constantly have to carry your laptop around.

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  Posted 2 months ago by TravisJ

• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  An extra large screen and lots of power.

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  The LG Graham is essentially, a desktop replacement. You have a large touchscreen, 17” WQXGA screen which is harder to come by these days as many laptops tend to now be 16” and lower. The resolution is 2560 x 1600 pixels which produces a sharp image, with a brightness of 320 nits (could be brighter but does fine in normal indoor lighting). The screen is anti-glare so reflections are at a minimum. The Intel Core Ultra 7 Series 2 processor is going to give you enough processing power for just about anything you need to do from all of the basics, all the way to heavier image editing and video processing. It works with the 32 gigs of RAM (great) and the Intel ARC graphics (good), so you’re not going to really want for more power at this price point. The 1 gig SSD drive is fast and going to give you plenty of storage for photos, videos, and games. For a larger laptop, the LG doesn’t weigh a lot at just barely over 3 pounds. At first it almost feels like a plastic body, but it’s really a tough composite material called “Nano Magnesium Alloy”, that’s been tested they say to military-grade standards for durability. Only time will tell, but generally, these composites are very tough. You get plenty of ports, including two USB-C thunderbolt 4 ports on the left side of the machine (fast), two USB 3.2 ports (right side), and a HDMI port (Left), along with a standard headphone jack. There’s a micro-SD memory card slot on the right side, though I would have preferred to see support for standard sized SD cards. The LG supports up to a 5K external monitor should you need it. Charging comes from a now standard USB-C style cable and power brick which is relatively small for a laptop. The battery is rated at just over 23 hours with varied use, but of course it will vary depending on what you do with it. I can go heavy on the video and some battery draining apps, and so far I’m going to say that give or take, I’m averaging between 12-16 hours. Still a VERY good performance, and I do tend to use the screen at high brightness. The keyboard is above average to good. They don’t feel cheap, and they are certainly serviceable. I can type for longer periods on it without being uncomfortable. The power button doubles as a fingerprint reader for security, and there is a 3 level backlight for the keys as well. The trackpad is good quality and does what you need it to do. The web cam has true 1080p resolution and is better than average in lower light, though it’s obviously a lot better in good lighting. You can blur the background to varying degrees as well as make other adjustments, and it’s good enough that you won’t have to invest in a third-party cam to be able to do video calls and meetings. As with many new laptops today, the LG includes Microsoft Copilot, so you can get AI assistance with writing, recomposing, creating images, or just generally asking questions. I find it to be a very useful tool. LG also includes their own AI assistant to help you find info about your computer and settings more easily, as well as links to support if needed. So far I haven’t had any issues with the LG. No hiccups with photo or video projects and while I’m not a heavy-duty gamer, everything I’ve played on it so far has run smoothly with no stalling. Though more basic, typical streaming on varied services has also gone without a hitch and the larger screen makes watching shows a little more enjoyable. Wifi connections have remained strong, as has Bluetooth with no disconnects of my wireless buds when using them. The Dolby speakers are more than good enough for streaming music and shows. I really like this laptop. I love the extra large quality screen, and having enough power to not worry about straining the system. Even when the fans do come on, they’re not obnoxiously loud. The only thing I would remind buyers is that while the LG is lightweight due to hit’s composite materials, it’s still a large laptop due to the screen size, so it’s not what I’d call ultra-portable – but it’s in my opinion again, more of a desktop replacement for home use. Worth the price. For me and for that, it’s a definite thumbs-up.

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  Posted 2 months ago by AtlantaGreg