Samir

Personally, I find the 2880x1800 resolution too small to work natively on a display less than 17". I can see why the Grams have a niche, especially in Korea--they are a dominant brand there along with samsung and the two are always back and forth.

I'm referring specifically to the 16" and 17" models as I'm not familiar with the others. Great to hear all the details from someone more familiar with them. :) I've always found Acer hit or miss on stuff, Lenovo sometimes the same, and Dell and HP solid--but all of mine from these brands are far older so I have no idea what their modern products are like.

I think the main reason Dell or Lenovo haven't tried is that they simply can't compete on cost. LG's display is stellar on the 16" and 17", and I think the way that LG keeps the cost cheaper than competitors can even make a competing model is from the cost of this display which they basically pass on 'at cost' to their laptop division. Every other manufacturer has to source a competing display and it would be from LG or Samsung, who will mark it up for a profit as a component, even if OEM. And being a significant cost of the laptop, the display would just tip the price to a point where people just won't buy it. It's surprising that LG orients these torwards the consumer market because the 16:10 format of the display is optimal for a lot of us that work. I use 30" desktop equivalents and one of the drivers to get my 17" grams was that the display is basically a portable version of what I'm used to already.

That acer keyboard is a no go for me as the LG layout is far better.

Yep! That's the other part of the part number I didn't document or try to fully decipher. I believe it also would let you know what OS came with it.

Weird, the forum didn't tell me my post was posted, hence the double post.

A little late to the party but something I've found that works very well on reviving circuits is CRC brand Contact Cleaner. Be sure to follow the instructions and make sure there's no power of any sort (have to disconnec the battery probably), but I've seen it revive circuits that were deemed shot by the manufacturer. Something to try.

A little late to the party but something I've found that works very well on reviving circuits is CRC brand Contact Cleaner. Be sure to follow the instructions and make sure there's no power of any sort (have to disconnec the battery probably), but I've seen it revive circuits that were deemed shot by the manufacturer. Something to try.

LG was never good at consolidating part numbers/model. Source: I was the person that used to stay on top of that for their national call center, haha.

It's great to see LG still keeping the fantastic 16:10 2560x1600 screen on these as the series continues. The screen is the reason I got mine since my desktop monitor is native 2560x1600 and I always am RDPing into my desktop so it's like a smaller version of a screen I already know. And since the older ones are limited due to soldered ram, etc, they're actually excellent for my use so I should probably look into getting some spares since they're probably starting to fall in price.

I can't believe I didn't see your reply until revisiting this thread to remember what I knew about the part numbers! The 95 is the least satisfying for sure because in my research I believe I even found variations between 95 models, with some having things like the fingerprint and backlit keyboard and others not (or some other features--can't recall exactly atm). Yep, the rest of the part number went into cpu, memory, storage and OS. I didn't try to decipher that as I think there was a decoder for that available. Can't remember anymore. 😞 I think it might have even been on LG's support site or sales site.

Ruckus is some awesome stuff! And so is anything that's old enterprise since it will sell for pennies on the dollar compared to what it cost new. There's a learning curve and many times it's designed for a data center so fans that scream, power usage that dims the lights (haha, just kidding--unless you have a 2200w VTX chassis or something like that--then it's for real), and performance that makes us smile in sheer delight. I'll take used enterprise gear or almost anything now--it's the bee's knees! In fact, there's actually a forum dedicated to the concept of basically creating a datacenter in your home--serve the home. There's also an active sub on reddit called homelabsales for the sale of equipment and others just for the whole 'data center in a home' hobby.

The best way I've found to check bandwidth between two points over tcp/ip is to use iperf. It's simple, it's command line and it's a single exe. I used this to validate how bad or decent all the runs at my parents house are that were run in 1995 by people that didn't know what they were doing. I too love pushing stuff into eras they don't belong, haha! I have a Pentium Pro 180 running 98se that I put a promise ata card in that would transfer 22MB/sec when backing up from one internal hard drive to the other! It's amazing how fast stuff goes when the theoretical limits are no longer the ceiling. Like the 256GB of ram in my HP z420 that was supposed to max out to 32GB, haha...

So I recently purchased these used for a very specific purpose--to be a portable RDP client with a 2560x1600 display. Why? Because my main 'workstation' is a win10 IOT thin client attached to a 30" 2560x1600 display. And I have this same setup in various physical locations that I need to work because of the 16:10 aspect ratio and resolution that lets me work fast and efficiently. I just RDP around to my 'main' and pretty much continue working right where I left off. My portable situation was less efficient because all I had was a 17" 1080p HP 8760w. While nice, not having the same screen resolution meant that I couldn't work as efficiently or as quickly. I couldn't justify the $1000+ price point of most laptops having a 2560x1600 display, but used Grams have come down in price dramatically and I was able to pick up two (one as a spare). Now comes the challenge of getting my win10 IOT image from the thin client to work on the LGs. I've had zero luck so far. So while I'm don't want to do a complete install from scratch, it seems like that will be the least time consuming option once I can get the isos downloaded. What I'd love to know is if anyone has tried this and any tips? Thank you in advance!

A couple of years since I hit this thread and I'm happy to report that the ltsb version I've been running is still running. With the write filter on, it's basically a lovely toaster that pretty much 'just works'. My demands on it are pretty low, and it does great for this application. Now, if I can only get this onto my LG Grams and then I'll be completely set.