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2018 has just started and LG has already popped out a new and improved version of their ultra lightweight laptop from last year the LG gram itas last year's modelled down a flight of concrete steps and a survive just fine let's see what secrets this new LG gram is hiding inside big thanks to LG for sending out this laptop and sponsoring the video I love showing off useful products with plenty of features and LG has packed his laptop full of the essentials LG doesn't charge extra for dongles because they put all the ports you need right inside the laptop itself imagine that the best way to review texts is from the inside the 2018 LG Graham is easy enough to open up with eight normal Phillips head screws hidden underneath these rubber boots I should probably mention at some point that LG does not endorse this kind of behavior but that's never stopped us before with the class on the back panel unsnapped we can set it off on the side and revealing an extremely modular and powerful setup inside of the LG Graham the quickest and easiest way to upgrade an old laptop is to add more storage or more memory and LG has their customers in mind when they allow that to happen gets a thumbs up for me it's got dual downward firing stereo speakers but the intriguing part to me is the dual SSD slots last year's model only had one as we all know storage normally gets way cheaper with time I remember my dad bringing home a computer when I was about 10 years old and telling me that we would never need to upgrade again since it had a four gigabyte hard drive things are a bit different nowadays this 1 terabyte laptop has over 250 times more storage than that computer my dad brought home all those years ago plus the laptops upgradable because at some point in the far future one terabyte will seem small the RAM is also removable and upgradable this 8 gigabyte stick doubles giving us 16 gigabytes of ddr4 ram making it a solid laptop for 2018 thermal wise over top of the i7 processor we have a massive copper heat pipe and a fan cooling off the tail end having only one fan as part of what makes this laptop so thin the whole laptop clocks in at 27 decibels under load making it pretty quiet for reference a whisper or rustling leaves is right next door at 20 decibels Apple users might want to look away for a second so they don't get too jealous but we have two USB 3.0 slots along with the headphone jack and micro SD card slot all connected into their own circuit board apart from the motherboard making repairability a real possibility if something gets damaged or broken down the road on the other side of the LG gram we have a charging port another USB 3.0 and a full size HDMI the coolest port last years LG Graham didn't have as a Thunderbolt 3 connector allowing this laptop to connect with 4k monitors or even better an external graphics card for gaming or video editing which as a youtuber is something we do a lot of even with intense peripherals hooked up like an external GPU LG says this fan and heat pipe combination keep the frames per second on par with other high-end laptops during a stress test the current display on this 2018 LG gram is a 1080p IPS display attached with this hinge and these silver screws and interesting enough it has the same circular connector and cable we saw inside the dual screen acts on M smartphone that I took apart a couple weeks ago the smart phone and laptop worlds are getting closer together last year LG bragged about having an all-day battery and this year's laptops battery is even bigger they're still calling it an all-day battery but this one has enough guts left over at the end of the day to still charge a cell phone pretty impressive I'll unplug the battery from the motherboard so we can get a closer look it's a 7 point 7 volt lithium-ion battery made up of four pouch cells connected together the trackpad is replaceable and has its own connection to the bottom of the motherboard I'll get the massive battery put back into place so we can turn this thing on for the first time and see if it still works the battery has 6 screws and the back panel of the laptop has eight Phillips head screws it really is refreshing to see a company not try to keep their customers out LG says the surface of their laptop is a nano carbon magnesium alloy giving the LG grama but under that metallic layer it has more of a plastic feel which makes sense this is one of the world's lightest laptops and their alloy is lighter and more durable than pure metal when it's this thin I can't decide if that was a shark fin or a tidal wave but you get the idea fun fact the power button doubles as a fingerprint scanner for an added layer of security and another tidbit a lot of laptops don't have is the keyboard is backlit making things super functional at night overall I'm impressed a super lightweight modular repairable and upgradable laptop LG has done a good job as with all technology the price does fluctuate swell linked to current pricing in the video description right below this video let me know if there's any other laptops you want to see torn apart or durability tested and thanks a ton for watching I'll see you around