- POWERDIRECTOR 17 ULTRA AND CYBERLINK PHOTODIRECTOR 10 ULTRA FULL
- POWERDIRECTOR 17 ULTRA AND CYBERLINK PHOTODIRECTOR 10 ULTRA BLUETOOTH
LG quotes 13.5 hours using Bapco’s MobileMark 18 benchmark and a whopping 22.5 hours of video playback in airplane mode and with its screen set at 150nits brightness. It is an extreme case but it does mean that the laptop will perform far better in real life situations. As a reminder, we play a 20 hour countdown video with Wi-Fi on, maximum brightness and disabling any power saving feature.
(Image credit: Future) LG Gram 16 Battery lifeĪt just over 9h40m (580 minutes) in our YouTube battery test, the LG Gram 16 tops our leaderboard. We tried a few tracks including the grandiose “ Toccata et fugue en ré mineur” and while it was crisp and without the sort of audio artifact you’d get from speakers on budget laptops, it lacked depth and presence of more audiophile-friendly laptops. LG says that the wider speaker box should produce “clear sound” and “heavier bass” but there’s only so much you can do in a compact enclosure defying the laws of physics isn’t one.Īs expected, the sound performance depends very much on who is listening and what is playing. There’s only a pair of them without a dedicated subwoofer like on the Apple MacBook Pro. The two speakers are located on the base of the laptop and are therefore downward firing. It is responsive and we didn’t have any issues with lag or accidental palm mishaps.Īudio is handled by a Realtek chip and is supported by DTS:X Ultra technology via a bundled app. The touchpad on the other hand is big (132 x 83mm) but without any physical buttons, which is the norm on thin-and-light laptops. Another criticism is the size of the keys the enter key is smaller than the shift key and we’d personally prefer to have a keyboard with a marginally larger footprint given that there’s plenty of space around it. The power button doubles as a fingerprint reader and remember that there is a dedicated keypad. As such it tends to be noisier and harsher which some touch typists might prefer because it provides a similar audio feedback to mechanical keyboards. The thickness of the device meant that compromises had to be made the key travel is shallower than on say, a business laptop where space and weight are not absolute priorities. The laptop’s screen is usable when overcast but not directly under bright sunlight as per the photos: 350 nits simply doesn’t cut it.Īs for the backlit keyboard, we found it to be uninspiring but adequate. It won’t match specialist displays but should give a close enough match for most use cases. LG states that the laptop’s display has a 350 nits brightness with a 1200:1 contrast ratio and DCI-P3 99% color gamut which is great for creatives looking for accurate color reproduction. The laptop was a treat to use fast, lightweight, reasonably quiet (although you can make it totally silent but it might throttle its performance).
POWERDIRECTOR 17 ULTRA AND CYBERLINK PHOTODIRECTOR 10 ULTRA BLUETOOTH
Wireless connectivity is handled by an Intel Wi-Fi 6E part, the AX211, which also supports Bluetooth 5.3 (and not 5.1 as per the spec sheet on LG’s site). One slot is populated by a 1TB Samsung PM9A(MZVL21T0HCLR-00B00) SSD, which has a rated sequential read/write performance of 7GBps/5.1GBps in other words, it should be quick.
POWERDIRECTOR 17 ULTRA AND CYBERLINK PHOTODIRECTOR 10 ULTRA FULL
This can be a life saver if you don’t want to swap an existing encrypted SSD that’s nearing full capacity or if a user wants to boost performance (by going to RAID-0) or reliability (by opting for RAID-1). Uniquely amongst laptops of this size and form factor, the LG Gram 16 ships with not one, but two SSD slots that are PCIe Gen4.
LG judiciously chose to pair the processor with the latest LPDDR5 memory, 16GB of it arranged in dual channel, in order to provide the 1240P with enough bandwidth to thrive. There’s also 18MB of cache and an Intel Iris Xe GPU capable of driving an 8K monitor. Importantly, it has a “Minimum Assured Power” of 20W and a “Maximum Turbo Power” of 64W, which the CPU reaches when it hits its maximum clock speed of 4.7GHz. This is the second generation Evo Gram 16 laptop that LG has released to date as such our model is powered by a 12-generation, 12-core/16-thread Intel Core i7-1260P. (Image credit: Future) LG Gram 16 Hardware
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