the 15in LG gam notebook that I reviewed
last year didn't have the greatest keyboard or a super crisp high
resolution screen it didn't have the best battery life and the strength of
its construction was frankly subpar but it got a very positive review
because I understood the Steep learning curve associated with engineering such a
unique product the world's lightest 50
15-in laptop under 1 kg well now they've had a year to
reflect on their experience and refine the design so the 2017 iteration of the
LG gram will get no such special
treatment let's see how it
fars the master keys Pro keyboard lineup from Cooler Master is available in three
siid each in white or RGB flavors check them
out at the link below right out of the gate LG's increased confidence in the
gram product line is apparent we get three different screen sizes to choose
from and the variety of configurations and colors available is wider our 14
iner is equipped with a dual core Core i5 7200 U 8 gigs of RAM and a 256 gig
SATA 3 SSD while our 15.6 in rocks a
core i775 500 U 16 gigs of RAM and a 512
gig SATA 3 SSD and there have been some other changes too for one thing the
topend 15.6 in model weighs more than a
kilogram now with the 14in coming in at
almost the same weight as last year's
15.6 wait what wasn't the weight the
whole point of the gram name even well
maybe but don't care because you get a whole lot of awesome stuff for your 10%
weight increase without in my mind giving up a noticeable amount of the
portability of it first up the lousy hinge has been replaced by one that's
damn near perfect this is more impressive than you might think one
finger lift is not easy on a device that
weighs so little next up all three gam
sizes are available with multi-touch screens now the 1080p IPS display still
isn't dazzlingly bright and suffers from worse than usual glare under non- ideal
conditions and I think strengthening it
a little bit to reduce wobble is especially important for something
you're supposed to touch but I'd still rather have this feature than not third
up the addition of a backlight on the
keyboard woo I mean I got nothing negative to say about it it's got two
brightness levels and works as you would expect the absence of this on last
year's model was one of my main gripes about it along with number four
unexceptional battery life which has been well let's just say the battery got
more roed up than '90s Major League
Baseball all three models 13 14 and 15.6
in get 60 wat hour batteries that's
about 85% of the capacity that powers a thin
and light gaming notebook like the blade for 3 to 4 hours except that by
comparison the gram sips power LG did
this cool video showcasing a sponsored art collab that was created on a single
charge on the gram and that was neat but
to put it in a more practical everyday perspective I forgot my laptop charger
at the office on Friday used it as I
normally would over the weekend and still had 30% left when I got into the
office on Monday morning the last machine I had that freed me from
worrying about the location of the nearest wall outlet like that was the
2015 MacBook and unlike that thing the
gram has ports though while the USBC
Port can be used for 4K 60 HZ output and
I'm pretty darn thankful for the micro SD and type a USB 3s I do think that the
load out could have been better Thunderbolt 3 and HDMI 2.0 would be
welcome editions on the next model and
Imo charging should really be handled by
another type c port and while I'm at it the speakers
sound like they're coming from somewhere under my desk probably because that's
where they're pointed the webcam location not to mention the image
quality sucks the big one I'd like to see it moved above the display even if
it costs me a few grams and while the
click pad actually feels pretty decent in day-to-day use objectively it really
needs to be better built on a device that costs this much with that said the
2x2 Wi-Fi implementation is a solid B minus managing over 30 megabytes per
second in my standard test location and the keyboard wins back a lot of the
points I just deducted there are a couple of layout Oddities I'm not a huge
fan of the power button here instead of delete but the key switches are
surprisingly satisfying to type on and there's a pleasant soft touch coding on
the key caps which add up to an overall really enjoyable typing experience and
this is critical for a hyper portable machine like this because even though
the simple cooling solution kept everything under control at reasonable
noise levels even with no thermal throttling these uclass dual cores
aren't beefy enough to do much more than
sit and work on them they just do it for a really really really really long time
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