Quote from: Jam on April 20, 2019, 10:03:13
I don't know why they don't put a 4K uhd panel instead of this 3200 x 1600 screen which is uncommon and you're stuck because you can't watch 4k videos. This screen is almost a deal breaker.
Otherwise this light laptop looks awesome.
This test is missing performance with an eGPU, in order to see if the CPU throttles or not.
I've owned this unit for about a month now, I also own a 15.6" 4K notebook. From a perspective of how sharp the desktop looks there really isn't a noticeable difference between the two.
The huge draw of this notebook is the 16:10 aspect ratio panel for productivity and creative work IMO. I wouldn't want them to swap it out for a 16:9 4K panel. It's in a class of it's own right now with zero competition in this regard. There's a lot of notebooks that could start to challenge this one in the 17" 16:9 space if you were willing to add a little weight to your purchase.
(The stated specs by notebookcheck at the top of this review are incorrect, this isn't a 16:9 panel, it's 16:10).
The only thing I'd like them to change for the next iteration would be to beef up the heat sink and fan so it can maintain higher boost clocks and maybe replace the charging port and put two thunderbolt 3 ports instead. Otherwise I'd probably be fine with nothing else changing. This thing DOES throttle. A lot. The heat sink and fan are sub-par. If they could upgrade those things without adding extra noise it would be nice. Check out this entire thread at the notebook review forums where a bunch of us have been discussing modding the heat management. http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/new-lg-gram-17.827017/
Pflugshaupt in particular has been doing some good work.
Other less important nit-pick stuff:
I could MAYBE say switch to a slightly less cramped centered keyboard without a number pad but I've slowly gotten used to the existing keyboard, in contrast to this the number pad comes in handy for DAW work, which this laptop is kind of made for and which I am learning music production but I'm not good enough yet to rely on the number pad for hot keys in the workflow, I'm still fumbling around. Number pad also is good for roguelikes, lol. Not a deal breaker though.
It would be nice if they put some top-firing speakers like the macbook pro and razer blade have. I really don't care much about this personally since I always use a pair of great cans, but it would be more universally appealing to the masses with great speakers, there's PLENTY of room for it.
All said I really love it. There's nothing else like it out there.
One other thing I thought I would never say, I'm kind of surprised at how much gaming I'm able to do on this meager 620 igpu if I keep my expectations in check. I thought it would be worse. (especially coming from a Tornado F5 with a 7700K + 1080). I assumed I would just be playing pretty much zero games. It's actually caused me to plumb the depths of the massive backlog of my gaming catalog that work acceptably on it, which has been fun.
I'm planning on getting a Sonnet Breakaway box and an RTX 2070 at some point though to remove that restriction. I'm obviously not expecting miracles, but it should be more than acceptable.
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