Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Goodbye Trackpad!”.
This is the LG gram Style and it is an update to one of my favorite laptops of all time.. When I first saw this at CES, it was love at first sight.. So when LG asked, if they could a sponsor video on the gram Style, it was the easiest. Yes, I have ever given.. Thankfully this is actually going on sale in the US.
When I was talking with them at CES. It sounded like this was not actually going to make it. And to me it would have been so sad because this is not only one of the best-looking laptops I’ve seen in many many years, but one of the things. That’S really surprised me after spending some time with it is just how good it feels to actually use. Getting carried away.. Why don’t? I tell you a little bit about the laptop before you hear my confession of undying love for it., (, laughs, ).
Welcome to my office., So I’ve been using the LG gram Style for a little while now and there are a few things that have really stood out to me.. Let’S face it. There are a lot of high-quality laptops to choose from. Good screens, great specs, solid battery life.. I mean you can kind of expect that on almost any device in the premium category, which is in my opinion, I think why LG are pretty smart to have expanded the 2023 lineup.. So, in addition to the Style which I have here, there’s also the gram Basic, which is very much similar to the earlier models, especially if you want a little bit more performance.
I’ll talk about that in a second. To me, it’s like for the most part, if You’Re going out to buy a laptop odds are since they’re all so good. Now, you’re, probably just gon na, buy the brand that you had last time right. You’Ve had a good experience.
You want one more: it’s gon na be a little bit faster, yada yada yada., But in my opinion, and especially where I am in tech now I want more than just a little bit better.. I don’t want just a little bit more performance, a little bit more battery life. Like I want a device that actually makes me feel something.. It’S one thing to be competent.
It’S one thing to be good, but it’s another thing when I’m actively like using the thing and I’m just smiling like “, Oh man, this wrist rest feels so good.. Oh, look! How cool the touch pad is? Oh, do you see how it’s purple it’s orange? It’S yellow it’s purple, it’s orange, like that’s cool !”, And that might just be me being a little excited by shiny things, but there’s something fundamentally great about this device.. What I really appreciate is the fact that I have laptops that, generally speaking, are my single device.. It’S not what I’m gon na go home to my desktop, and this and that., Like I take one laptop home with me. Take it to work., I plug it into my setup.. I use one device all the time and it’s been interesting to see how the gram Style has fit into that.
So performance-wise. While this is not a gaming device, not meant for hardcore content creation, it still does have a 13th gen Intel Core i7-1360P four performance cores that could boost up to 5 gigahertz. Eight efficiency, cores 32 gigs of RAM 1 terabyte SSD.
I’ll, be honest. I’Ve had a very good relationship with LG for years.. I mean you look at the monitor on my desk.
This is the original 2016 LG UltraFine 5K, and it’s nice that I can plug my gram in and push the full 5K resolution over Thunderbolt and it integrates well into my setup.. But I’ve had such good experience with LG across so many years, but also, I legitimately, love the company right Like I have LG OLEDs in my house., Those aren’t sponsored.. I bought those. Ken. How many LG OLEDs do you own [ Ken ] Three.? Did you buy any of them Yeah., All of them right, Yeah, 100 % Exactly.? This is just a huge step forward and I’m so so happy that LG have actually decided to sell it in the US., Because, honestly, if they didn’t, they would be doing themselves a massive disservice. One of the party tricks really is the touch pad.. So at first glance there is no touch pad, but when you actually go to touch it you’ll see that there are a couple of LEDs on the sides which denote what actually is touchable. And when you actually go to click on it.
Instead of having a physical press, instead, you feel some haptic feedback and I’ll say it actually is quite nice. Now mind you. If this is not your style, if you want something, that’s a little bit more obvious, the other grams are available that have a regular touch pad. But for me the look of this and the actual experience is really quite nice. And the same thing goes for the keyboard.. Now this is a 16-inch version..
Personally, I usually like 14-inch devices, but you do have a small number pad on the right. Side., There’s like a lot of attention to detail here that is easy to miss at first glance. Like if you use this at night, for example, the backlighting is incredibly consistent like one of the best-looking backlights on a keyboard.. Does that matter that much Probably not. Is that nice little detail that I very much appreciate that LG put the time and care and attention to put into Absolutely.. At this point, I’m finding excuses to grab the gram Style.. I might be able to do something on my phone, but oh you know what Ooh ooh oh.. Those are the noises I make when I’m mm oh.. Sorry, I’m really carried away right now.. I hope you see how like genuinely excited.
I am for this. Like again. This is a sponsored video by LG.. The reason it’s sponsored is because I basically was like “. I have to have this thing You have to. Let me do a video on it.
!” Like this is not like “. Oh, it was some random thing that came through the office.” Like. I was so excited by this thing that I needed to make this video. ( hands.
Smacking ). It’S one thing to say that this is a thin and light laptop, but it’s another thing to actually appreciate just how light it really is. Again 16-inch device.. Whereas if I had a 16-inch laptop from a certain fruit-themed company which mind you just a little slightly different class of performance, that will weigh literally double what this gram is. There’s. Also a good selection of ports, including dual Thunderbolt 4.. We’Ve got a headphone jack, which side note. I hate that companies are starting to remove the headphone jack on laptops..
So thank you to LG for not removing it on the gram Style. And we also have a full-sized USB-A as well as a microSD card slot.. I also appreciate that the gram comes with a very slim 65-watt charger, which, of course, since it’s USB-C, you could charge other devices. But I appreciate that LG are fully committed to the thin and light aspect, no matter if it’s the charger or the laptop itself., Not calling anyone out, but there’s a few laptops. I’Ve looked at recently that have the big chunky power, brick and I’m like ( object. Tumbles ) ( cat cries ), “, Okay, I guess.”. Let me tell you about this screen on this device. Like it’s one thing to have a beautiful exterior, but this is a terrific 3.2K OLED display..
Not only does it run at 120 hertz, it’s a 16 by 10 aspect ratio and it also has 100 % coverage of the DCI-P3 color space, which is important for me, because I do appreciate having a very color accurate display when I’m reviewing cuts and doing maybe A little bit of light content creation.. The only thing I could possibly complain about with this laptop display is the fact that it is not available in a touchscreen. Other grams are, but the Style right now only comes in non-touch and it’s fine. But I would like to be able to touch it mostly because I instinctively touch my screen a lot and I forget: that’s not touchscreen..
You touch your screen. Sometimes., Don’t act like I’m the weird one here. You guys do that right. [ Ken ] Nope., The Dolby Atmos compatible speakers are decent on the gram, although I understand that this is a Style and they wan na make sure that the aesthetic is really nice but having them upward-firing would be nice.. The Style also has a decent webcam, which does support facial recognition using Windows Hello.. While I personally really like the style. There are also updates to the standard gram lineup this year.. So I have the LG gram 17 here, which obviously gets you a larger display.
So 17 inches, and on top of that it actually is a little bit more optimized for gaming.. Not only do you have a 144-hertz display which does support variable, refresh rate from 31 all the way up to that 144, but on top of that you get a little bit of extra performance., Not only the 13th gen Intel Core i7 processor. But importantly, this is outfitted with an RTX 3050.. Now, no, that’s not some hardcore gaming laptop, but to be able to do a little bit of content creation and some gaming on the side.
I appreciate it because if you’ve got a 17-inch laptop, you better believe I want some extra power. Did. I just run into the rock when I said power Keep your eyes on the roads kid. To me, there’s a couple of big takeaways here.. First and foremost, I’m happy to see LG taking the gram and moving it solidly in the right direction.. They already had a very competent laptop, but now with the Style line, they’ve got some real well style with it., But on top of that, they haven’t done that at the sacrifice of any of the ports or the performance or the lightweight or anything like that., Like They’Ve really taken everything that I loved about the gram and taken the extra step of making it so much nicer to look at and so much nicer to use..
Thank you to LG for sponsoring this video and letting me actually get my hands on these devices.. If you’d like to know anything more, definitely be sure to go check them out at the links in the description. .