Adrian
To keep this brief, the LG Gram 15 (2018) is a fantastic student/business laptop that is ridiculously lightweight and arguably the most portable 15 inch laptop on the market. It is, however, a bit on the pricey side. Pros: - Amazingly lightweight, picking this up with one hand is easy, using while lying down is comfortable, and can be thrown into a bag or backpack and you wont even know its there. - Ridiculously good battery life, a pretty solid day of web browsing, YouTube, reading academic literature, and checking emails and chatting on Discord and still have about 40% battery by the evening. I estimate this laptop at around 60-70% brightness can get between 10-12 hours of use in a day from a full charge. - Gorgeous 1080p IPS touchscreen display, colors are vibrant, brightness is pretty solid (though cant compete with Dell XPS or MacBooks), and touchscreen is responsive and accurate - SATA SSD storage; speeds arent great but faster than an HDD and boots quickly. - Good touchpad, a bit on the small side but it works well and doesnt have any glitches or bugs (looking at you Asus). - Pretty nice and comfy keyboard with number pad, back-lighting is nice, keys are nice to press and arent too loud; however, the keyboard is a bit on the small side. Cons: - 1080p IPS touchscreen is GLOSSY: fingerprints galore on this guy. Get yourself an anti-glare matte screen protector. - Pricey: top model comes out to $1,799 + tax, and thats with 1TB SSD storage, 16gb of DDR4 RAM, and an i5-8550u. I got mine from Amazon Warehouse Deals for $1,630 total, and thats a much better value than the $1,799 MSRP this guy goes for. - No discrete graphics, so please dont buy this thinking its a portable light gaming laptop. Overall, I like this laptop, and as a university student and soon-to-be business professional, this lightweight touchscreen package really serves my needs well. However, if youre a gamer or content creator looking to edit, record, or play on a laptop, this IS NOT for you. In addition, the price is fairly high, and although you get portability, you can find heavier but far more powerful laptops at this price point. Research the market and carefully consider your needs before taking the plunge on the LG Gram 15.
