 Hey, so I heard you can hook me up with a gram. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt, dude. How much you want? A gram. 17? What? LG gram 17. It's the world's lightest laptop now with a 17 inch display. That's a gram? That's a gram, dude. Okay. Thanks, I guess. Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, cool, cool, cool. That guy didn't pay me. ["Skyfall 2-Eleven"] But you know who did? Our sponsor for today's episode, Mack Weldon. Mack Weldon's silver line of underwear, T-shirts, and socks are naturally antimicrobial, which means you won't smell quite so bad. It's great. Use offer code TechTips20 at the link below to get 20% off. As with every gram notebook, the second you pick up the LG gram 17 for the first time, it is shocking how light it feels. Like its gram cousins, it ends up feeling a little like those plastic device replicas that they have in retail stores so that their real ones don't get stolen. Now with that said, this gram is much bigger than the previous ones at 17 inches and it tips the scales at 2.95 pounds or about 1.3 kilograms. So they're really pushing the limits of the gram category here, but it's still closer to one than it is to two kilograms. And regardless of the numbers, most of the big screen laptops that we deal with are gaming machines. So being able to carry around a notebook this size without having to remember Nicky V's lifting tips, it's just great. Unfortunately, one of the things that comes along with lightness in a machine this large is some loss of the stiffness and the sturdiness that we were so impressed by on the most recent 13 inch gram. Now to be clear, it's still made out of the same metal alloys, nano carbon with magnesium, which sounds really fancy and high tech, but it feels a lot like plastic. And that means it's still pretty fingerprint resistant and durable enough from my experience daily driving previous grams, but the display in particular is definitely wobblier than I'd like. And like if you press on it in certain spots, it kind of feels hollow, which I guess makes sense since it does have hollow spots to save on weight. Design wise, the gram 17 is still great if you like your notebooks plain and gray. But to be clear, I'm not knocking that, it's clean looking, so it'll perfectly match your boring briefcase and it's highly functional. While the webcam still kind of sucks, the IO is a great mix, including full-sized HDMI and Thunderbolt 3 with charging support. There's a fingerprint sensor in the power button. You get a full, if slightly squished number pad and the super thin bezels frame what is in my mind, the most potent feature of the gram 17. It's utterly massive display. What can I say about this? Doesn't have HDR, just sort of a drag and touch support is gone unfortunately, but it's still got great color accuracy and viewing angles thanks to its IPS panel. And the resolution has been boosted from 1080p to 2560 by 1600, which yes, is a 16 by 10 aspect ratio for those of you keeping score at home. This gives both professionals and creatives a little extra real estate to work with. And while the pixel density is a bit lower than some other high-end laptops, in my opinion, 4K screens on portable devices are mostly wasted anyway. Everything from a premier timeline to an Excel spreadsheet looked nice and crisp, not to mention big on the gram 17's display. On the subject of premier, internally, the gram 17 is a little more ultra than LG's previous ultra books. The processor got bumped up to an Intel Core i7 8565U with four cores and eight threads running at 1.8 gigahertz, which means that combined with its 16 gigs of DDR4 memory and 512 gig M.2 SATA SSD, this machine packs way beefier guts than its weight would seem to indicate, easily powering through regular office use and even holding its own for photo and light video editing. Now, one of the 13 inches main strengths, in fact, it's the feature we liked most in our review last year, is its battery life. So then how does the larger display and faster processor affect things on the 17 inch? Well, the last time I checked, eight is not equal to or greater than 10. So there was definitely an impact, but honestly, that's still a really solid result and other features that continue to rock on the gram include the keyboard with a nice tactile feel despite the short travel distance and the track pad, which is quite good, even if there's still room to make it bigger. Opening up the bottom by removing the rubber feet and these annoying little plastic sticker things, we find the reason for the reduction in battery life. This seems to be the same 72 watt hour battery as the 15 inch. We wouldn't have minded seeing that bumped up a little bit. In here, we've also got an extra M.2 slot for expansion and then that's about it. You'd think LG might've added another RAM slot, larger speakers or even more cooling to fill out the extra space a bit, but then again, I guess if it ain't broke, you don't fix it and the gram neither thermal throttled nor got loud throughout our testing. So should you upgrade to the latest and largest gram? Well, for the same price as this thing, or even less actually, you could make any number of compromises on internal specs, build quality, and most of all, weight if you were to go with something else. But the fact remains that this notebook is the lightest and most portable 17 incher ever. 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So thanks for watching guys. If this video sucked, you know what to do. But if it was awesome, get subscribed, hit that like button or check out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured in the video description. Also linked in the description is our merch store, which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum, which you should totally join. Like a gram, 17. Wait, I forget what you're supposed to say too. Oh, you just say what? We're supposed to stare at each other. No, no, no, sorry. Yeah, yeah, you just say what? Does this not fit in my, I have a laptop pocket. Can we please get this in the outtakes at the end? It won't fit in my laptop pocket. It only takes a 15 inch. Critical design flaw. You know what, forget it. Any recommendations we were gonna make. Man. You're done. Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let me just get my pocket book. Oh yeah. For sure there bud. Ah, okay, fine, whatever. It'll just be here. What? LG gram 17 dude. Right here. It's the world's largest laptop, the lightest laptop. I screwed that up anyways. We're just getting the watch out.