Kaby Lake chips like the Core i7-8550U and the Core i7-8500Y contained in the C930 (14,739) and Folio (8,090) are outmatched. That's well above the the 12,856 premium laptop average. The laptop continued powering through our tests, scoring an impressive 15,943 on the Geekbench 4.1 overall performance test. It certainly had no problem streaming an episode of Black Mirror on Netflix with 20 additional open tabs in Google Chrome, some of which were running Twitch streams, TweetDeck and YouTube videos. Armed with a 1.8-GHz Intel Core i7-8565U processor with 16GB of RAM, the Gram tore through most of our tests. Sometimes, all you need is a shot of Whiskey Lake. The bottom corners of the touchpad were a little mushy, but I could still reliably left- and right-click. And I never experienced any cursor jump when typing. Gestures like pinch zoom, two-finger scroll and three-finger swipe were a breeze on the 4.1 x 2.5-inch touchpad.
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MORE: How To Deal With Dysfunctional Keys On Your Keyboard I could barely see the keyboard's glow in a dim setting, and I made a few more errors than usual, thanks to the smaller keys. And I easily hit my usual 70 words per minute on the 10fastfingers typing test.īut I do have two requests for LG on the keyboard front: Make the backlighting brighter, and don't shrink the Backspace and Enter key down so much. However, after more than 2 hours of typing, my fingertips weren't sore, as I've experience on other laptops. The keys definitely bottomed out as I typed the review. With this machine's key travel of 1.2 millimeters (between 1.5mm and 2mm is ideal) and actuation of 69 grams (60 g is our minimum), I tend to agree. "Shallow, but not bad." That's what Avram Piltch, our resident keyboard master, had to say about the Gram's island-style keyboard. The bass guitar and piano competed with each other as I listened to Bruno Mars' "Perm," making for distorted instrumentals and overpowered vocals.
Even with an assist from DTS software, the Gram barely filled our medium-size test lab. The pair of speakers mounted to the Gram's bottom aren't the worst, but they're far from the best. Unfortunately, there's nowhere to dock the Pen, even though both the pen and the laptop are constructed from metal, so there could easily be a magnet. It wasn't an apples-to-apples comparison with traditional pen and paper, but it was smooth and fluid, and the pen adjusted instantly to how much pressure I exerted when making different strokes. Both features helped make for a more natural writing experience for me. The Wacom AES (Active Electrostatic) 2.0 Pen offers 4,096 levels of press and has tilt-detection technology. Luckily, LG bundles its Stylus Pen to help you handle the finer details. If you want to take clean notes or make detailed sketches on the Gram's screen, you'll need a pen. The panel kept pace with my fingers as they pinched and zoomed and created random doodles. Made of strong, scratch-proof Corning Gorilla Glass, the Gram's display is plenty durable. MORE: Laptops with the Best Display Brightness That's well below the 322-nit average as well as the results from the C930 (273 nits), Folio (313 nits) and Surface Laptop 2 (321 nits).
Regina Hall's bright red pants and royal-blue striped shirt popped on the 1920 x 1080 display as I watched the trailer for Little.Īs lovely as the Gram's color is, the brightness leaves much to be desired. However, the LG's display was no match for the Surface Laptop 2's screen, which delivered 176 percent. This screen is also more vibrant than those on the Spectre Folio and C930, which measured 119 and 100 percent, respectively. The panel's captivating color comes from its ability to reproduce 128 percent of the sRGB gamut, topping the 117-percent premium laptop average.
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