LG has introduced additions to its ultra-light Gram and Gram Professional laptop computer lineup, including cloud-based and on-device AI-powered options that transcend its current Gram laptops.
The 16-inch Gram Professional may even be the primary Copilot Plus PC within the LG Gram lineup and is additional distinguished as the one mannequin utilizing the Intel Lunar Lake Core Extremely V-Sequence processors. The 17-inch Gram Professional and 16-inch 2-in-1 use Intel’s Arrow Lake Core Extremely H-Sequence processors.
The LG Gram Professional will probably be out there in 17-inch and 16-inch fashions that includes 2,560 x 1,600 shows, as much as 32GB of LPDDR5X reminiscence, and as much as 2TB Gen4 NVMe SSDs. The 16-inch Gram Professional and the 16-inch LG Gram Professional 2-in-1 can have Intel Arc GPUs, whereas the 17-inch Gram Professional will as an alternative function an Nvidia GeForce RTX4050 graphics card.
Gram Chat On-Machine, which makes use of a “small language mannequin derived from LG AI Analysis’s EXAONE giant language mannequin,” powers offline options, together with Time Journey, which lets customers shortly revisit “net pages, paperwork, movies and audio recordsdata” they’ve not too long ago accessed. LG’s software program is including instruments just like Microsoft’s Copilot Plus suite and Apple Intelligence, however given the trouble Microsoft has had with Recall, we’ll have to attend and see the way it all measures up.
It additionally would possibly make these options out there on extra PCs, however LG hasn’t specified which AI options will probably be out there on which laptops within the new Gram lineup.
Gram Chat Cloud is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o and responds to inquiries utilizing “huge web-based datasets for detailed and complete responses” whereas integrating with calendar and e mail providers. It requires an energetic web connection and can solely be free for the primary yr.
The entire new Gram laptops additionally help LG’s Gram Hyperlink 2.0, which streamlines doc and file sharing with different PCs and iOS or Android-based smartphones. It additionally permits incoming cellphone calls to be answered by means of the Gram laptops, so that you don’t should swap headsets or Bluetooth headphones to a different machine quickly.
LG may even introduce its entry-level Gram Book to the US market subsequent yr. Powered by an Intel Core i5 processor, it encompasses a 15.6-inch 60Hz full HD show, a 720p webcam, and configurations of as much as 1TB of SSD storage and 16GB of DDR4 reminiscence.
