 Have you ever looked at something, immediately wanted it, and then found out that for some reason you can't have it? Well, that was the experience that I had with this, the LG Ultra PC. On the surface, it looks kind of like an LG Gram, which I love, but with a little bit more weight and a lot more performance. Only one small problem. It turns out that you can't get this thing outside of Korea. The South Korea, to be precise. And I mean, look at this! Look at this amazing promotional video that's... ["Go Sangnam-ul, Gap-yeop-gi-ae, Jil-gi-da, LG Ultra PC GT"] Only six seconds long for some reason. Anyway. Fortunately, if you are annoying enough and persistent enough, I've often found that you can get what you want eventually. ["Go Sangnam-ul, Gap-yeop-gi-ae, Jil-gi-da, LG Ultra PC GT"] And it works for more than just wedding proposals. This is the LG Ultra PC. A laptop that has never before been seen outside of its homeland. And the video about it is brought to you by Mack Weldon. 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["Go Sangnam-ul, Gap-yeop-gi-ae, Jil-gi-da, LG Ultra PC GT"] Yep. Alright. So aside from the actually pretty good feeling and... presumably stylish carry bag and a power adapter, pretty much the only thing in the box is the Ultra PC itself. And it looks pretty much exactly like I expected. It's a big fat gram. Overall, it's not that heavy for a 15-inch model. It's about 2 centimeters thick at its thickest point, so again, not unreasonably thick. And in terms of build quality, like... it's kind of... honestly, it's kind of hard to describe it, because it's like it does feel... in some places, pretty nice. Um, but then that's definitely more keyboard flex than we'd like to see. And this is something that has been an ongoing critique of ours about LG's notebooks. I.O.Y.'s, it's reasonable, but not exceptional. So you got your HDMI, headphone, microSD, USB, a couple USB 3s, a Type-C USB 3, not Thunderbolt, and gigabit ethernet. Let's fire this thing up, shall we? Boop. Is that their slogan in Korea? Hi there, I'm Cortana, and I'm here to help. A little sign in here, a touch of Wi-Fi there, and we'll have your PC ready for all you plan to do. And if you'd like me to stay quiet, you can just mute your PC. If you need an assistive screen reader, press the... Why is this in English? Why does it take so long? Like, what is the point of preloading all of this stuff? So it asks me what region, but it asks me in English. It's weird. This looks like a bog, standard US layout keyboard, just with alternate Korean characters on it. No, I don't want to make Cortana my personal assistant. Under the hood, there's a couple of things about the specs that stood out to us. It's got an 8550U, so that's a quad-core low-power processor, 8 gigs of RAM, though it depends what skew you get, as always, 240 gig SSD, 500 gig hard drive, and the big one was that it comes with a GeForce GTX 1050. So what we were hoping for was with that low-power processor, but a discrete graphics card in a larger clamshell, was a nice balance of battery life, performance, and even the ability to game a little bit. Hopefully at a decent price. Let's start! Let's do that. Okay, so first step is to jump on Nyanite and get all our stuff set up, and we will be right back. Even LG's own software on here is like in English. Mind you, I did install English Windows. Cortana, I already, I told you no. I just told you no. So these are just Control and Alt. So instead of just labeling both of them twice, they just hedged their bets. They figured, well, they'll infer from this Control and Alt, but that's also Control and Alt, and vice versa. The only Korean-only software on here is their support number. So we've got all our software loaded up now, and one of the first things that we do any time a notebook hits our lab is slap it with a stress test. So stress FPU, hit that. And almost immediately, we noticed something really interesting about this particular model. It detects that it is thermal throttling, and in fact, its clock speed does get reduced, but the CPU is only sitting at about 60 high to 70 low degrees on each of the individual cores. So it would appear as though the T-junction temperature was misconfigured by the manufacturer. Now, their intent may have been to allow the CPU to burst up during light loads, but still not pass a bunch of heat through to the user when it's under a long, strenuous load, but this does seem like a fairly extreme approach if that was their intent. You know, overall, it really is a testament to how far entry-level slash mainstream graphics cards have come that you can play DOOM on a machine like this with a GTX 1050 and have not a bad experience. Like, I'm running it at high, and I'm seeing dips down to below 30 FPS, but like, it's very playable. Especially considering the fairly assy speakers on the Gram, the speakers are not bad, and I still maintain that at laptop screen sizes, 1080p resolution is adequately sufficient, though it would be nice if it was a touchscreen. Enough of that, let's take it apart. So poking around in here, there are a couple of takeaways. Number one is that I'm a little confused as to why LG felt the need to have the CPU thermal throttle, which supports our hypothesis that that was sort of an accident, because the two heat pipes connected to the CPU actually go to both of these heat exchangers here. You can see our GPU over here, upgradeable RAM, so we've got two SODIMM slots, one of which is empty on our 8GB model, but that would be a nice and easy upgrade, and actually, overall upgradability of this device is pretty good. You've got an M.2 slot here, that one is populated, and then you've also got room for a 2.5-inch hard drive, which is also populated, but you could swap those out for something else, should you desire. Moving on to the battery, we've got a respectable 60-watt hours that did give us about four hours in our standard battery test, but I did feel a little disappointed by this just because LG has built such a brand identity for themselves on the RAM side of things around having these massive capacity batteries in these thin and light devices, and this one just didn't meet my expectations there. And there are a handful of other complaints that I have about it as well. First of all, the keyboard is crap. There are two major problems with it. One, there's a nice tactile bump, but the actuation point is pretty much at the bottom of the stroke, and two, the chassis just isn't stiff enough around my right hand, like it's noticeably more flexible compared to my left, causing me to regularly miss keystrokes in like this, like, this whole half of the keyboard here. Now, to be clear, it's not the worst keyboard I've ever used, but I would put it below, say, a Dell Inspiron. The trackpad is good enough, no issues, but it also didn't wow me, and it's pretty small by today's standards, so it gets a fine out of amazing. And honestly, that's not a bad summary of this device as a whole. Everything from the performance to the bezels to the webcam is fine, except for one big problem, the pricing. So if you're part of the 0.3% of our audience that is in South Korea, it's actually not a terrible option, but if, like us, you were hoping that this would be something like the Xiaomi Notebook Pro, which wasn't the best laptop we'd ever seen, but was priced well enough to be worth the hassle of getting it here from China, then you're in for a rude awakening. Due to South Korea's fairly harsh import regulations and taxes, Samsung and LG don't need to be quite as competitive in their home market, so this laptop at $1,600 would be up against much more pricey, more expensive laptops. It would cost much more premium competitors outside of South Korea. Another example of this is the Samsung Galaxy S8, a phone that may have actually been made in South Korea, but that costs $130 more to buy there. Hooray for oligopolies. But it's not a huge loss, because even if LG was to bring the Ultra PC to the rest of the world, which they've said they have no plans to do, the value proposition wouldn't be amazing. With a couple more generations of improvement, particularly to the stiffness of the chassis and to the keyboard, LG may be in a position where, with the right pricing, they could expand their notebook line internationally, though, so let's see if they do it. Speaking of seeing, now is the time to see the link in the video description to Dollar Shave Club. Dollar Shave Club is more than just razors, and they make it easy for you to upgrade your shave and your bathroom. You no longer have to step foot in a store to get a high-quality shave and great grooming products delivered right to your door. And for a limited time, Dollar Shave Club is basically giving away their Sh**t Shower Shave Starter Set to new members for only five bucks. 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