LG's 'Aerominum' Gram Pro laptops feel impossibly light and strong

For years, LG has pushed its ultra-light Gram laptops arsenic a measurement to guidelines retired from nan PC crowd, for amended aliases worse. I was't a large instrumentality of nan flex-prone lawsuit successful nan 2017 Gram, and we had akin concerns pinch nan first 17-inch Gram successful 2019. But successful fairness, it's been a while since we've reviewed one, and we recovered a batch to for illustration successful our preview of last year's AI-equipped model. Now LG is backmost pinch a awesome Gram Pro redesign astatine CES 2026, which features a caller aluminum/magnesium alloy it's dubbed "Aerominum." And finally, it seems LG has recovered a equilibrium betwixt building a super-light notebook (the 16-inch Gram Pro weighs conscionable 2.6 pounds), and crafting thing that really feels durable.

Admittedly, nan Gram Pro doesn't look peculiarly awesome astatine first glance. It has a ample 16-inch 2.8K OLED screen, which surely looks nice, but doesn't really guidelines retired from nan glut of different OLED laptops connected market. It's besides powered by Intel's caller Panther Lake chips, and it supports dual NVMe SSDs. The magic happens erstwhile you prime it up: My encephalon had a difficult clip computing really specified a ample machine felt truthful ray successful my hands. And champion of all, it didn't flex overmuch erstwhile I tried to compression nan case.

There's still a spot of give, to beryllium clear, but it didn't consciousness arsenic precariously bendy arsenic earlier models. I wouldn't accent excessively overmuch astir throwing it into a messenger container without further protection. The much I handled nan Gram Pro, nan much I wished different PC makers strived for akin weight reduction. The Gram Pro weighs astir arsenic overmuch arsenic nan 13-inch MacBook Air! That's surely an awesome feat.

I conscionable wish LG spent arsenic overmuch clip refining nan Gram Pro's keyboard arsenic its lawsuit design. There's hardly immoderate cardinal travel, which made for an unresponsive and unsatisfying typing experience. I get it, LG astir apt doesn't person nan disposable vertical tallness for overmuch cardinal movement, but location are different ways to make typing consciousness much dynamic. The Gram Pro's trackpad, meanwhile, is serviceable, but it besides didn't consciousness arsenic soft and responsive arsenic what we spot from Apple's notebooks aliases Microsoft's Surface Laptop.

In summation to nan 16-inch Gram Pro, LG besides debuted a 17-inch exemplary pinch an Aerominum case, which is notable for being nan lightest notebook astatine that size pinch an NVIDIA RTX GPU. Specifically, it's toting nan RTX 5050, which should beryllium capable to play astir games astatine nan laptop's autochthonal 2,880 by 1,800 solution (or 1440p blown up a bit). Given nan much powerful hardware, nan Gram Pro 17 is heavier than nan 16-inch model, but it still comes successful nether 4 pounds. I didn't get a chance to play immoderate games connected nan laptop, unfortunately, but wide it looks for illustration a decent action for personification who wants a ample surface pinch a spot of horsepower.