A laptop that weighed under a kilo was once one of the main features of LG’s laptop line, but this year, the focus is less on weight and more on capability.
Depending on how old you are, it’s possible you recall just how heavy laptops used to be. There used to be differences between notebooks and “sub-notebooks“, the latter of which is properly light because it was built to be slim and small, while notebooks could cover nearly anything.
Big but still portable, clunky but easier to carry than a desktop, notebooks have had a checkered history of what constitutes portability, but in recent years, all of that has gone away.
These days, every laptop is lighter and more powerful than it would have been a decade ago, which would have been lighter and more powerful than a decade before that. Even so, some companies try to push the benchmark of what constitutes thin and light, going so far as to offer ranges designed to be thinner and lighter than everything else out there.
That’s one way of describing LG’s return to laptops in recent years, with the “Gram” typically being a Windows laptop designed to shed the weight and fit in under a kilo gram. In some instances, just barely off the mark by a single gram or two.
This year, however, LG isn’t using that approach. Rather, in 2025, the LG Gram comes in 15.6, 16, and 17 inch varieties, all of which tip the scales at over one kilogram, while every model in the range also managed to fit well under two.
Screen sizes may set them apart, but the 2025 LG Gram mostly gets Intel Core Ultra 7 processors, while one model, the 15.6 inch variety sticks with a 13th-gen Core i5, coming across as the least expensive of the bunch. There’s less memory in this model, 8GB compared to the 16GB and 32GB found across the rest of the range, and the screen is a lower resolution, too (Full HD’s 1920×1080 vs WQXGA’s 2560×1600).
The focus is clearly on the 16 and 17 inch varieties, and they’ll also get AI support with Windows 11, including an LG service “Gram Chat Cloud”, which uses OpenAI’s Chat GPT-4o to summarise documents or brainstorm ideas in what LG says is a private space. The service is apparently subscription based, though LG hasn’t said how much it will cost nor whether you’ll get any for free, and sounds a little like the ChatGPT integration found inside CoPilot for Windows.
While AI is seemingly part of every PC these days (because we’re in the era of the AI PC), the main focus on the LG Gram isn’t on what AI can do for you, but rather how easily you can carry a sizeable laptop with AI. And based on a 1.39kg weight with a thickness of 17.8mm, the answer is apparently very easily.
“The 2025 LG Gram lineup represents a significant step forward for our signature gram line,” said Gemma Lemieux, Marketing Director for LG Electronics in Australia and New Zealand.
“We’ve taken the lightweight portability that Gram is known for and supercharged it with powerful AI capabilities and the latest Intel processors, delivering an unparalleled experience for users who demand both power and freedom,” she said.
Those new LG AI Gram machines won’t come cheap, however, with pricing sitting around the $3,000 mark and higher, launching in stores and online across the country shortly.
