LG Gram Pro 17 Review: Ultralight and Ultra Hot

Choosing a laptop inevitably involves a matter of compromise. A lightweight, much portable instrumentality means a tiny surface and a cramped keyboard. A larger laptop provides country to agelong retired and usually much power—at the disbursal of portability. What’s an on-the-go originative to do? Is determination a champion of some worlds retired determination somewhere?

Enter LG with its Gram Pro 17, and I wouldn’t imagination of burying the lede connected this one: At 18 millimeters heavy and weighing conscionable 2.8 pounds, it is the thinnest and lightest 17-inch laptop I’ve ever seen, and it’s not adjacent close.

Some points of examination to start, successful lawsuit you deliberation I’m being dramatic. The 17.3-inch Acer Nitro 17 I reviewed precocious weighs a hefty 6.3 pounds and is 34 mm thick. Back successful 2018, HP’s Omen X 17 tipped the scales astatine 9.9 pounds and a beastly 41 mm of girth—and it didn’t adjacent person the courtesy to see an optical thrust with it. The lone instrumentality that is adjacent successful the ballpark is the oddball HP Spectre Foldable. With its removable keyboard, it weighs 3.5 pounds and is 23 mm thick—though that’s hardly an apples-to-apples comparison.

That’s benignant of the point. There is nary examination for this laptop and nary meaningful constituent of reference. Unboxing it felt similar idiosyncratic was pulling a prank connected me. Did a child’s integrative artifact someway get shipped to maine alternatively of a Windows laptop? Where’s the accustomed 1-pound powerfulness brick? LG has been making iterative versions of this laptop since 2019, but adjacent the older models don’t scope the featherweight presumption of this 2024 model.

Aside from being impossibly airy and thin, what bash you get with the caller Gram Pro 17? An Intel Core Ultra 7 155H CPU is backed by 32 GB of RAM, a 2-terabyte solid-state thrust (curiously configured arsenic 2 logical disks), and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card. That’s a reasonably dated, lower-end graphics processor, which I’ll delve into successful much item soon. The agleam IPS surface offers 2,460 X 1,600 pixels of resolution, but it isn't a touchscreen (to support things thin).

The larboard selection, arranged connected some sides of the instrumentality with nary connected the back, is bully but not rather great. You get 2 USB-A ports, 2 USB-C 4.0 ports, and a full-size HDMI. You’ll request 1 of the USB-C ports for charging with the included A/C adapter.

LG's plan present is understated, each matte-black, powder-coated with gentle curves astatine the corners and thing successful the mode of flourishes extracurricular of the “Gram” logo connected top. There’s country for a (rather slim) numeric keypad to the close of the spacious keyboard, though cardinal question is needfully restricted owed to the utmost thinness of the device.