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today we're going to do something a little bit different this is the first video in a series of videos about laptop durability normally I deal with cell phones but laptops are portable as well and still suffer the same amount of abuse being towed around everywhere LG was brave enough to send me the LG gram one of the thinnest and lightest laptops in existence while still boasting some pretty powerful specs I'll leave a link down in the video description if you want to check out some of those specs but this video is going to be about durability let's get started this brand new 15-inch laptop from LG is one of the lightest and most portable laptops on the planet way near just 2.2 pounds it is considerably lighter than Apple's new macbook pro which landed just over 3 pounds now when talking about the exterior surface material LG says it is a nano carbon magnesium alloy which at my first impression legitimately had the look and feel of cold metal right out of the box and even has the same metallic sound we've all come to love but when I get out the Roediger and dig a little deeper through that top metallic coating there is plastic material underneath now this doesn't bother me too much on a laptop this laptop was specifically built to be light portable and powerful and they've accomplished that my level 3 most pic tells us that this laptop has a seventh generation i7 processor with 16 gigabytes of RAM and a huge 512 gigabyte SSD hard drive LG said that these nano carbon metallic powders on the surface improved the laptop strength by 26% but we'll have to test that out in a minute the keyboard is also plastics and that's normal I can't think of a single laptop or keyboard with metal keys if you know of one let me know about it in the comments so when I was first thinking about doing durability tests on laptops besides just build quality checks I tweeted it out and there are some really good suggestions from you guys the most relevant of which I think is the drop test because that's probably what happens most laptops you know being dropped off a table or being dropped out of a backpack for me personally anytime my phone damage the last office when it's been plugged in and sitting on a table and someone walks by and accidentally like kicks that cable and pulls a laptop off the table luckily with the LG Graham they're boasting like a 12 hour battery life which is pretty impressive so I imagine it's not going to be plugged in a whole lot but just for the sake of continuity across all of my laptop tests we're going to do this one plugged into the wall you got to admit that this is a pretty good-looking laptop it's got the super thin bezels on the side it's got the touch lit keypad and it's got enough ports that it's almost like LG wants you to be productive with their laptop so right now the laptop is on and completely functioning it's a brand new laptop there's a couple scratches but that's not going to affect the build quality so review this three times I'm going to stand up and trip over this cable which i think is the most common drop that happens with laptops all right still functioning drop number one let the ten drop number two same cable dropped number two just completely functioning it's almost like this laptop is so light that there's no weight there's not enough weight to actually damage any of the internal components or the screen hinge or anything this is the third drop them and open up the laptop as far as it'll go and drop it one more time I'm still nothing wrong with the laptop still functioning completely the last thing I'm gonna do is a crush test because as we know laptops are mostly in backpacks or book bags and sometimes they get leaned up against you on the subway or the bus or in your car so I'm going to close the laptop and stand on it now I weigh about 200 pounds so if this thing can survive a crush test of 200 pounds it can probably survive anybody leaning up against it all right here we go stepping on the laptop all of my weight directly on top of it the seat it still works Oh that is awesome there is no crack at all on the screen I think we're good to go let's double check oh that is amazing so even after being stepped on with 200 pounds of pressure the screen is still completely functioning and nothing is wrong with the laptop I think that's pretty impressive let me know if there's any other tests that I should do in my laptop series leave them down in the comments below and I will read them I'll also leave a link in the description of this video for this laptop if it can survive three drops in two hundred pounds of pressure I would consider it pretty durable it would be interesting to see how big the battery really is inside this laptop when I do my teardown thanks ton for watching I'll see you around