hey so i heard you can hook me up with a gram yeah yeah yeah no doubt no doubt
dude uh how much you want a grand 17
what lg gram 17. it's the world's lightest
laptop now with a 17 inch display
that's a gram that's a grab dude
okay thanks i guess yeah no doubt yeah yeah
cool
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every gram notebook the second you pick up the lg gram 17 for the first time it
is shocking how light it feels
like its graham cousins it ends up feeling a little like those plastic
device replicas that they have in retail stores so that their real ones don't get
stolen now with that said this gram is much
bigger than the previous ones at 17
inches and it tips the scales at 2.95
pounds or about 1.3 kilograms so they're really pushing the limits of the gram
category here but it's still closer to 1 than it is to 2 kilograms and regardless
of the numbers most of the big screen laptops that we deal with are gaming
machines so being able to carry around a notebook this size without having to
remember nikki v's lifting tips it's just great
unfortunately one of the things that comes along with lightness in a machine
this large is some loss of the stiffness and the sturdiness that we were so
impressed by on the most recent 13-inch gram now to be clear it's still made out
of the same metal alloys nanocarbon with
magnesium which sounds really fancy and high tech
but it feels a lot like plastic and that
means it's still pretty fingerprint resistant and durable enough from my
experience daily driving previous grams but
the display in particular is definitely wobblier than i'd like and
like if you press on it in certain spots it
kind of feels hollow which i guess makes sense since it does
have hollow spots to save on weight design wise the gram 17 is still great
if you like your notebooks plain and gray but to be clear i'm not knocking
that it's clean looking so it'll perfectly match your boring briefcase
and it's highly functional while the webcam still kinda sucks the i o is a
great mix including full-sized HDMI and
Thunderbolt 3 with charging support there's a fingerprint sensor in the
power button you get a full if slightly squished number pad and the super thin
bezels frame what is in my mind the most potent feature of the gram 17. it's
utterly massive display what can i say about
this uh it doesn't have HDR just sort of a drag and touch support
is gone unfortunately but it's still got great color accuracy and
viewing angles thanks to its ips panel and the resolution has been boosted from
1080p to 2560x1600 which yes
is a 16x10 aspect ratio for those of you
keeping score at home this gives both professionals and creatives a little
extra real estate to work with and while the pixel density is a bit lower than
some other high-end laptops in my opinion 4k screens on portable devices
are mostly wasted anyway everything from
a premiere timeline to an excel spreadsheet looked nice and crisp not to
mention big on the gram 17's display
on the subject of premiere internally the gram 17 is a little more ultra than
lg's previous ultrabooks the processor got bumped up to an Intel core i7 8565u
with 4 cores and 8 threads running at 1.8 gigahertz which means that combined
with its 16 gigs of ddr4 memory and 512
gig m.2 stated SSD this machine packs
way beefier guts than its weight would seem to indicate easily powering through
regular office use and even holding its own for photo and light video editing
now one of the 13 inches main strengths in fact it's the feature we liked most
in our review last year is its battery life so then how does the larger display
and faster processor affect things on the 17 inch
well the last time i checked
8 is not equal to or greater than 10. so
there was definitely an impact but honestly that's still a really solid
result and other features that continue to rock on the gram include the keyboard
with a nice tactile feel despite the short travel distance and the track pad
which is quite good even if there's still room to make it bigger opening up
the bottom by removing the rubber feet and these annoying little plastic
sticker things we find the reason for the reduction in battery life this seems
to be the same 72 watt hour battery as the 15 inch we wouldn't have minded
seeing that bumped up a little bit in here we've also got an extra m.2 slot
for expansion and then that's about it you'd think lg might have added another
RAM slot larger speakers or even more
cooling to fill out the extra space a bit but then again i guess if it ain't
broke you don't fix it and the gram neither thermal throttled nor got loud
throughout our testing so
should you upgrade to the latest and largest gram well
for the same price as this thing or even less actually you could make any
number of compromises on internal specs build quality and most of all weight if
you were to go with something else but the fact remains that this notebook
is the lightest and most portable 17-incher ever so for people who take
their laptop anywhere and everywhere it's a winner as long as that anywhere
isn't an ally fight it won't make much of a makeshift self-defense weapon
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wait i forget what you're supposed to say too isn't that well you just say most disturbing no no no sorry yeah yeah
you just say what does this not fit in my
i have a laptop pocket
can we please get this in the outtakes at the end
it won't fit in my laptop pocket it only takes a 15 inch critical design
flaw you know what forget it any recommendations we were going to make
done you're done wait wait wait wait wait wait
let me just get my pocketbook
do you think there'll ever be a generation that folds one more time
oh yeah for sure there bud
ah okay fine whatever it'll just be here
what lgram17 dude
right here it's the world's largest laptop lightest laptop
i screwed that up anyways