The refreshed Gram lineup includes a 17-inch model with a 16:10 2560 x 1600 IPS display, Thunderbolt 3, Wi-Fi 6, Iris Plus iGPUs and dual NVMe SSD options. LG also offers a 15-inch model together with a regular 14-incher and a convertible 14-incher that come with 16:9 1080p screens.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-announces-refreshed-Gram-laptop-lineup-powered-by-Intel-s-Ice-Lake-CPUs.447080.0.html
2029? is this what they says?
Well Im student I think Im gonna have big company and produce 2nm Chips to 2030. Trust me.
They says they will be 10nm in 2018.
That 17 incher sounds ideal in every way. Now lets see them screw it up by only making it available with a glossy screen.
I have last year's Gram 17 paired with a Sonnet Breakaway Box 550W and an Asus Strix RTX 2070 OC. I love it. It's a SUPER QUIET setup and games like a boss. I run everything at the internal display's native resolution, everything plays great. I love having this awesome display at 3lb and being able to do some heavy gaming to boot.
This new one is a iterative improvement on the last one. The only thing that's slightly depressing is it looks like it's not the 6 core CPU and since it's the same weight probably has the same exact meager heat management. I still wouldn't give it up for anything, I love it.
Quote from: Jesse on December 11, 2019, 23:20:46
That 17 incher sounds ideal in every way. Now lets see them screw it up by only making it available with a glossy screen.
The glossy screen is
semi-fixable by applying an anti-glare screen protector. What I'm keeping my fingers crossed for is that they will take advantage of the deck space on the 17-incher to use a nice full-sized keyboard with full-height cursor and function keys instead of just dropping in the cramped keyboard from the 15-inch model as they did with the current release.
In particular, it was the half-height up and down arrow keys in the current model that stopped me from getting one this year. It's a feature I've seen on a
lot of recent "consumer-class" laptops, and I simply don't understand who could
possibly have thought that was a good idea. Maybe an esthetic designer or materials accountant with no background in ergonomics and haptics, but
definitely not anyone who has ever done production word-processing. The only workaround I can think of for that on the Gram 17 would be to remap the arrow keys in the numeric keypad so you end up with a classic inverted T, and even if it's doable, it's an unwelcome hassle.
Still, kudos to LG for using a 16:10 display ratio on the 17-inch model. I use both a 16:9 and a 16:10 laptop on a regular basis, and the extra vertical space on the 16:10 spares me an
appreciable amount of scrolling, especially in apps with multiple toolbars or statusbars. It's not like the good old days when 4:3 (=16:12) was the standard, but I notice the difference every time I switch back and forth between the two.