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So in front of me, I have some extremely light laptops, and you already knew that because you
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saw the LG logo and you saw the name Gram. Gram has been that indicator for years now of some of
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the lightest laptops you can get your hands on, and specifically light laptops that don't compromise
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screen space. So in front of me, I have what I think is the world's lightest 17-inch laptop
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There's actually a couple of Gram variants here, including one with an RTX card that you can do a
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little bit of gaming on, and then I've got a 16-inch as well, but in this group is the world's
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lightest 17-inch, which there's not even how many 17-inches to choose from anymore, let alone ones
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that are as light as this one. So I'm excited to check it out and see what it feels like in hand
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Full metal body. That's not just light, but very thin. Whoa. So this is a huge screen. Like
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look at this thing. Let's do some specs. Okay, so this model being the lightest is coming in at
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1,539 grams, hence the gram name, just over 1.5 kilos. So that gives you about 3.39 pounds on a
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17-inch laptop. It has a 77-watt-hour battery. You've got Intel Arc graphics, so integrated
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but you've got a WQXGA display, 2560 by 1600, which is actually the same on both 17-inch models
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Of course, the difference between the two is the RTX capability, a slightly bigger battery and a slightly heavier unit
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but still not heavy at 1739 grams when we get to the next one
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Also in the package, a little bit of startup stuff. Even the packaging is lightweight here
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Power brick, which is pretty small. 65-watt power brick, and I presume Type-C cable to go with it
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Pretty straightforward unboxing experience. Let's look around the device a little bit
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On this side, we still are able to fit in a full-size HDMI port
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You can see it's so thin that in this section, it kind of has to drop down a little bit
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to accommodate that full-size HDMI port, as well as two Type-C connectors with an LED indicator
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And those ports are also Thunderbolt 4 capable or USB 3.2. On the other side, you have two USB-A ports
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and an og audio jack. This thing gets even thinner when you open it up
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We can see how thin the display section is. Ooh, huge. That's the benefit of 17-inch
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And this is not your 17 inch laptop from about a decade ago
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that you couldn't lift up so easily like this. Massive trackpad on this thing
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Check out the size of this trackpad mechanical click with a full size keyboard with number pad Of course 17 inches gives you that capability and the keyboard is a chiclet style without too
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much bend. It's also fairly quiet, but anytime you're dealing with something this thin and light
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you get curious about how much flex you're going to have in the deck, and I would say this is acceptable. Let's see what it says here about the LG Gram. So Intel Core Ultra 7
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But of course, we have Copilot, and LG also has its own AI options built in as well
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You have AI Gram Chat, which is on-device, and then you have Gram Chat in the cloud
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So the on-device, it will consider personal insights based on your local data
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whereas the Gram Chat cloud is powered by OpenAI, and it will utilize cloud-based objective data
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3.4 pounds, light and durable with a premium metal build. Military spec, 810H slim and strong
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Copilot, which we already talked about. You have LG Gram Link, which helps with sharing between devices from your mobile devices, iOS, Android, and your LG laptop
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You can just drag and drop your files without the need for a physical connection
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26.5 hours of battery life is bananas. Of course, that's going to be under certain usage circumstances, but still impressive
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And then also the display is now touch, which I did not know. A big touchscreen in this case
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Let's put this aside for a moment and look at the other options. This is going to give you the RTX and a slightly bigger battery to power the RTX
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This has an RTX 5050 in it with 8 gigs of video memory
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They both have 32 gigs of RAM They both have M.2 dual SSD slots
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However, this is Gen 5, so higher performance Gen 4 SSD, Gen 5 SSD
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I can feel that it's a little bit heavier However, it is still thin and light
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Especially for something with a GPU in it The other reason this is probably a little bit heavier is because of the battery
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So 90 watt hour versus 77 watt hour So this one coming in at 1,739 grams
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Okay, let's look around this one. Full size HDMI, two type C connectors, Thunderbolt 4
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The HDMI is 2.1, so 4K60. On the other side, two USB-A ports, as well as og audio
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The finish is a little different. So this has like an etched metallic look to it
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Almost kind of a little bit like stainless steel. I know that it's not. I'm going to give you a little comparison there
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Slightly different material. Still metallic feeling. If I look at the bottom
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we have a more substantial rubberized foot in the center. Maybe that helps with cooling
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We have bigger grills as well for not just cooling, but also for your speaker grills
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So maybe slightly bigger chassis. In case you're looking for model codes
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this is the 17Z90UB, and then this one here is the 17Z90UR So UB versus UR We do a little side here Keyboards look to be basically the same Trackpads basically the same
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Slightly different pitch when you actually type on them. Of course, we have our RTX indication on here with a sticker
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Light and durable. This one's coming in at 3.8 pounds versus 3.4
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So that makes it a little easier for people to understand that are in the Imperial system
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But the displays are the same. They're both 17-inch. They're both extremely thin and light
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I'm gonna make a little laptop stack here, form factor identical. That's interesting
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So I thought they were identical. I mean, the screens are identical, but the actual layout is different
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If you look at the side here, this one has a little bit bigger rear section
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and you can see the ports are moved forward slightly. Probably a consideration for cooling, I would assume
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Okay, last up, we have a 16 inch model. This is a 16Z90U
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And this one actually brings the resolution up to 2880 by 1800. It has an OLED display, 77 watt-hour battery, and super light at 1,199 grams using this Arominum material
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which I struggled to say properly when we were at CES. Arominum, like aluminum, but swapping out arrow at the beginning, Arominum
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Who cares? What it means for you is crazy thin and light
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1,199 grams, 1.2 kilos, 16-inch display. That is super light. I mean, it's light compared to those ones, which are already light
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It also feels thinner to me. And then if we look around at ports, you're going to see a similar layout
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So full-size HDMI that they squeezed in, two Type-C connectors, Thunderbolt 4
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two USB-A ports, and of course, a headphone jack. Now, if you think about it
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how many peripherals you can have connected. You don't need any dongles because you can deal with Type-A
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you can deal with Type-C. And if you need to hook up to a projector or TV, you have full-size HDMI
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So you're always ready to go. Dongle-free lifestyle, which is nice. This one is super light
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This is Frisbee-like. Okay, so we cracked this one open. So Intel Core Ultra X7
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The trackpad of course has to be a little bit smaller on a 16 inch device They still were able to fit a number pad in here
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But they had to squeeze it a little bit more and sort of compress things So the finish on here is again this etched metallic kind of look
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I presume this is that era minimum And then that's the reason that we can get something that is as rigid as this
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But can be as light as this is For a 16 inch laptop with 2880 by 1800 OLED display
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That's pretty impressive All right, let's complete the sandwich. I just want to check which power adapter is included with this unit
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So this guy is also a 65 watt and now that I think about it I should check for the rtx model as well
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So we get an extension cable and we get a beefier power brick Over here we going to get 140 watt still fairly small for a 140 watt but you can just see the difference there between 140 and 65
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Yeah, so displays to me across these two look very comparable, I'm not surprised
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But I do want to compare the speaker performance because that could be a little bit different
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This model, now these two things line up exactly. Or, now these two things line up exactly
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Or not. Not. Wait a minute. I take that. A little more low end on the RTX model
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But it's like very comparable. Mo's looking at me right now. There's no way from there you're telling much of a difference
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I would say comparable on those two. Now, because I'm already at it, let's check out the OLED
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This one is so light. We have dynamics on. So light. And obviously OLED is OLED
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It's beautiful. Look at it. With the anti-glare. Look at the black on the hoodie
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Wait till the hoodie should... You see what I'm saying? Well, OLED is still OLED. And I guess there's some considerations you're going to have
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If you're looking for like the lightest laptop you can get that like still has a big display
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Because typically when you're considering weight and especially if you're at like two and a half pounds
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you're looking at small laptops, 14 inch laptops, I guess. Definitely not 16 inch laptops normally
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It's almost like a freebie. You're just getting a much more immersive screen
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And in this case, an OLED screen. And you're carrying around the same weight as something that's normally a lot smaller and not as nice to look at
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Their material choices and this new development, and they've always been light, but the era
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minimum, it lets you get really insanely light while still maintaining decent battery, big
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display, high res, and not just using plastic. Like that's the material science here with this particular alloy
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Pick that one up right there. It is really light. It is really light
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I think students are going to like that. Like a student who's really considerate of carrying a laptop on their back all day
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but doesn't want a tiny screen because that's all their multimedia. That's where they watch all their content and everything
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Right. Do their work. So you don't want to have like a 14 inch or 13 inch laptop
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You still have a 16 inch laptop, but it's lighter than a lot of 14 inch laptops
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Or go 17. Yeah. You can go up to the 17. This is still super light and you get even more screen real estate
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So you have options, but the gram is still the gram. If you need the lightest weight laptops, this is what you're looking at
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According to LG, the world's lightest 17-inch laptop featuring RTX. And at the time of recording this, that may have changed, but I doubt it
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And even if it did, this is still going to be amongst the lightest possible
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