JANUARY 2020 PCWorld 83LG Gram 17: A big-screen laptop
that’s incredibly lightweight
LG’s 17-inch laptop is unlike any other thin-and-light PC on the market. BY JARED NEWMANWhile reviewing the LG Gram
17, one thought persisted:
Why aren’t people freaking
out over this laptop?
Here we have a notebook with a
gorgeous 17-inch display and monster battery
life, yet at 2.95 pounds, it’s almost as light as a
13-inch MacBook Air. Factor in a cool and
quiet chassis, a silky-smooth trackpad, ample
storage, and plenty of ports, and you have abig-screen laptop with none of the usual
big-screen trade-offs—well, aside from its
steep $1,699 list price (though we’ve
noticed a lower price on Amazon [go.
pcworld.com/lg17]).
To be sure, the LG Gram 17 isn’t perfect,
because no laptop is (go.pcworld.com/
nolp). It doesn’t have the best keyboard, its
design feels a bit bland, and speaker quality is
downright terrible. But when you’re workingIMAGE: JARED NEWMAN