LG 2025 Notebooks

[John Ratsey]

LG announced four new notebooks for 2025 https://www.lg.com/us/press-release/lg-hybrid-ai-gram-laptops .Three models are upgraded versions of the Pro and the fourth is a more wallet-friendly 15.6" model. There's a little more information at https://www.engadget.com/computing/laptops/lg-gram-pro-2-in-1-2025-hands-on-of-course-a-thin-and-light-laptop-gets-ai-at-ces-2025-023252332.html . The 17" Pro with dGPU is heavier than the 2024 version.

 

We will have to wait to discover if, as in previous years, the standard models are refreshed with the latest Intel chipsets.

 

[RS4]

LG has neglected the standard Gram models for the last 4-5 years with very few useful updates, I am expecting the same this year too. 

[skipper]

This LG Gram "Book" should never exist and never called Gram, it is heavy as a brick and has subpar specs.

The Grams were always supposed to be light and premium laptops. Then they launched the "Pro" adding dGPUs and better cooling, bigger battery in 2022. Now they have the Pros to indicate better cooling, screens with VRR or OLED, better speakers. But basically after the 2022 models with the Alder Lake processors (too many cores for the traditional one-fan cooling to handle) they should have stopped selling the normal Grams with one fan (they were subpar products, not premium anymore with a lot of thermal throttling) and move everything to what they call Pro line. 

But now in 2025 with Lunar Lake the one fan Grams might make again sense (they seem to have the old chassis with the SD card reader) and become battery champions.

The pre-order possibilities on the LG US site for the Pros is a freaking mess: 16in come with OLED or IPS or IPS and touch, Lunar Lake or Arrow Lake (OLED are paired with Arrow Lake), all the 16in have only 77Wh batteries, the 17in also come with Arrow Lake (90Wh battery) and Lunar Lake (77Wh battery).

[Samir]

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.

[John Ratsey]

On 2/26/2025 at 6:57 PM, skipper said:

This LG Gram "Book" should never exist and never called Gram, it is heavy as a brick and has subpar specs.

The Grams were always supposed to be light and premium laptops.

The Gram Book has appeared on the LG UK website. What caught my eye was "Color gamut NTSC 45% (Typical)" which, unless I'm mistaken, is underwhelming. I'm prepared to pay a extra for a notebook with a top quality display but the LG book appears to offer anything above average except for the price tag.

 

7 hours ago, Samir said:

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 a bewildering system and it's challenging trying to make sure that I select the right product out of AD78A1, AA78A1, AD89A1 and AD79A1.