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hey so i heard you can hook me up with a gram yeah yeah yeah no doubt no doubt

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dude uh how much you want a grand 17

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what lg gram 17. it's the world's lightest

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laptop now with a 17 inch display

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that's a gram that's a grab dude

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okay thanks i guess yeah no doubt yeah yeah

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cool

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every gram notebook the second you pick up the lg gram 17 for the first time it

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is shocking how light it feels

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like its graham cousins it ends up feeling a little like those plastic

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device replicas that they have in retail stores so that their real ones don't get

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stolen now with that said this gram is much

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bigger than the previous ones at 17

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inches and it tips the scales at 2.95

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pounds or about 1.3 kilograms so they're really pushing the limits of the gram

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category here but it's still closer to 1 than it is to 2 kilograms and regardless

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of the numbers most of the big screen laptops that we deal with are gaming

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machines so being able to carry around a notebook this size without having to

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remember nikki v's lifting tips it's just great

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unfortunately one of the things that comes along with lightness in a machine

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this large is some loss of the stiffness and the sturdiness that we were so

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impressed by on the most recent 13-inch gram now to be clear it's still made out

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of the same metal alloys nanocarbon with

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magnesium which sounds really fancy and high tech

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but it feels a lot like plastic and that

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means it's still pretty fingerprint resistant and durable enough from my

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experience daily driving previous grams but

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the display in particular is definitely wobblier than i'd like and

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like if you press on it in certain spots it

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kind of feels hollow which i guess makes sense since it does

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have hollow spots to save on weight design wise the gram 17 is still great

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if you like your notebooks plain and gray but to be clear i'm not knocking

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that it's clean looking so it'll perfectly match your boring briefcase

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and it's highly functional while the webcam still kinda sucks the i o is a

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great mix including full-sized HDMI and

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Thunderbolt 3 with charging support there's a fingerprint sensor in the

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power button you get a full if slightly squished number pad and the super thin

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bezels frame what is in my mind the most potent feature of the gram 17. it's

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utterly massive display what can i say about

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this uh it doesn't have HDR just sort of a drag and touch support

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is gone unfortunately but it's still got great color accuracy and

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viewing angles thanks to its ips panel and the resolution has been boosted from

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1080p to 2560x1600 which yes

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is a 16x10 aspect ratio for those of you

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keeping score at home this gives both professionals and creatives a little

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extra real estate to work with and while the pixel density is a bit lower than

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some other high-end laptops in my opinion 4k screens on portable devices

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are mostly wasted anyway everything from

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a premiere timeline to an excel spreadsheet looked nice and crisp not to

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mention big on the gram 17's display

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on the subject of premiere internally the gram 17 is a little more ultra than

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lg's previous ultrabooks the processor got bumped up to an Intel core i7 8565u

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with 4 cores and 8 threads running at 1.8 gigahertz which means that combined

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with its 16 gigs of ddr4 memory and 512

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gig m.2 stated SSD this machine packs

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way beefier guts than its weight would seem to indicate easily powering through

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regular office use and even holding its own for photo and light video editing

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now one of the 13 inches main strengths in fact it's the feature we liked most

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in our review last year is its battery life so then how does the larger display

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and faster processor affect things on the 17 inch

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well the last time i checked

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8 is not equal to or greater than 10. so

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there was definitely an impact but honestly that's still a really solid

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result and other features that continue to rock on the gram include the keyboard

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with a nice tactile feel despite the short travel distance and the track pad

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which is quite good even if there's still room to make it bigger opening up

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the bottom by removing the rubber feet and these annoying little plastic

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sticker things we find the reason for the reduction in battery life this seems

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to be the same 72 watt hour battery as the 15 inch we wouldn't have minded

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seeing that bumped up a little bit in here we've also got an extra m.2 slot

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for expansion and then that's about it you'd think lg might have added another

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RAM slot larger speakers or even more

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cooling to fill out the extra space a bit but then again i guess if it ain't

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broke you don't fix it and the gram neither thermal throttled nor got loud

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throughout our testing so

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should you upgrade to the latest and largest gram well

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for the same price as this thing or even less actually you could make any

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number of compromises on internal specs build quality and most of all weight if

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you were to go with something else but the fact remains that this notebook

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is the lightest and most portable 17-incher ever so for people who take

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their laptop anywhere and everywhere it's a winner as long as that anywhere

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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

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you just say what does this not fit in my

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i have a laptop pocket

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can we please get this in the outtakes at the end

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it won't fit in my laptop pocket it only takes a 15 inch critical design

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flaw you know what forget it any recommendations we were going to make

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done you're done wait wait wait wait wait wait

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let me just get my pocketbook

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do you think there'll ever be a generation that folds one more time

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oh yeah for sure there bud

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ah okay fine whatever it'll just be here

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what lgram17 dude

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right here it's the world's largest laptop lightest laptop

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i screwed that up anyways