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hey how's it going Dave QD here so in late 2015 I did a review of the 14 inch LG Graham it was a thin and light ultrabook but it had a few too many compromises for me to go just openly recommend it to everyone this is a 15 inch version it's been updated for 2017 it uses their magnesium carbon nanotube material again a super lightweight metal alloy but they've done a respectable job with the build on the 15 inch the top tech doesn't have much flex for how light the devices the bottom panel also is much better than I expected the hinge is well made and it's actually one hand open bolt despite being so thin it's pretty cool the screen and top panel still have more flex on I'd like but unless you're really rough on this device you'll be fine if you're worried I just get a sweet now the reason why they go with this magnesium alloy is so that they can make this laptop extremely light it's 2.4 pounds so that's just barely over a kilogram and it starts at 1200 dollars depending on specs so by comparison when you take an equal respect XPS 13 that's 2.7 pounds for a 13.3 inch screen the LG gram is 2.4 pounds with a 15.6 inch screen it has a lighter weight with a significantly bigger screen and when you hold it it's awesome it incredibly lights and easy to carry around it doesn't feel like an indestructible tank but if you're trying to get to this weight there's not much more you can do the port selection is pretty good for a device like this there's a microSD slot audio jack a bunch of USB ports HDMI and one USB C port it doesn't support Thunderbolt 3 but they've included an Ethernet jungle if you want to get inside it's actually quite difficult to open up you have to remove some rubber feet some hinge covers and then try the bottom panel off it can be done though inside you'll see a single slot of ddr4 Ram my unit has 16 gigs the storage uses a SATA interface the speeds are actually very fast for SATA 3 but it's still limited it's no nvme the battery down here has been upgraded to 60 watt air is a massive improvement over the 35 watt hours of the older model and this battery was one of the biggest complaints about the previous generation and LG listened and they made significantly better here right now on this model I'm able to comfortably get eight hours of regular use at the screen at 250 minutes and this is just like regular work if you want to watch movies or if you want to lower the screen brightness they'll be able to get longer battery life especially with the cable a chip but the important thing is that you can go through a full day of use without bringing your charger around opening the screen you can see that the bezels are really thin it rivals the thin bezels of the XPS line from Delft not as sin but close the display is a 1080p IPS panel glossy finish and it's a touchscreen it gets reasonably bright right now for any kind of indoor work the viewing angles in the color gamut are also not bad the webcam is located on the bottom hinge because of the bezel so you have that upward camera angle again the keyboard is back with this here that's another big thing that LG address the main keyboard area is pretty comfortable to use the keys only have 1.1 millimeters of travel not a lot but they feel responsive enough and it's brooming there's a number pad on the right but the keys there feel cramped to me don't ever use those keys so I'm not the best judge of them but if you need a number pad for work this has one of them the trackpad is OK for the most part tracking is accurate and the click mechanism feels good it uses eland drivers I wish it was using Windows precision drivers but these ones aren't bad in terms of performance this unit is running a KB Lake i7 with the HD 620 it's a very snappy system when doing work browsing the web or watching videos gaming performance isn't amazing this isn't a device for pro gamers but the HD 620 can get playable framerates in lighter games on low settings if you want to edit videos I'd stick with 1080p footage for K is going to be choppy and definitely put your footage on an external drive the thermals are respectable this time it obviously gets warm when you push it hard but nothing uncomfortable the fans don't come on often and even when they do they're still pretty quiet and when I run have your benchmarks on this thing there is CPU throttling but it's not bad considering the form factor and when I run the stress test from 3dmark it passes which is really weird to see on an ultra light laptop the speakers are good they don't sound amazing in terms of audio quality I mean they're a small ultrabook speaker but they're clear enough and they position them in a ways that they actually fire outwards towards the sides so that the stereo effect is really pronounced on the system so that's the 15-inch Graham and I kind of find it weird that more companies don't make devices like this I mean you can find 13-inch sinan light ultra books everywhere there's an army of them to choose from but if you're looking for something with a bigger screen this is one of very few with the Graham you're getting a magnesium alloy casing with decent build quality for its weight the 15 inch touchscreen is above average the brightness color accuracy and the viewing angles are all pretty good but it's not perfect the keyboard is comfortable to use and the backlighting is a very welcome addition this year the trackpad is nice to use there's nothing I dislike about it the KB Lake CPU and HT 620 are great performers for light to moderate tasks and are well cooled the RAM and the storage are replaceable if need be but it's not easy to get in there and then powering this device is a 60 watt hour battery that will comfortably get you eight hours of real usage so the 2017 LG Graham much improved significantly better battery life that's the big one for me the KB wake up grade is nice the backlit keyboard is nice I mean some people are just going to love those things but for me the extended battery life is just that brings this laptop from a cool kind of niche product to something that I would openly recommend for anyone who's looking for some of them at sin and light with a big screen that's the end of this video hope you guys enjoyed it thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it to you guys next time