Key takeaways of zdnet
- LG Gram 17 (2025) is now available for $ 1,699.
- You will not find a thin, light 17 inch laptop there, and the Intel “Lunar Lake” processor is a big upgrade from last year’s model.
- The touchscreen is wobbly, black matte finish attracts fingerprints, and I wish it would have a Happy Trackpad.
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So you like a big screen, 17-inch laptop, but you want to take it around without breaking your back? You got me Village of LG 17 The lightest, thinnest 17-inch laptop remains to its name, on which you have your eyes.
We have gone to hand-hands with several models from the gram series of LG over the years, such as Gram Pro 17 and Gram Pro 16 2-in-1 of 2024. Fortunately, the new Village 17 has some improvements on last year’s model, and honestly, the differences between the base model and the Pro are not as prominent as you can expect.
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Gram 17 is a highly light laptop for its size, which only thinning 0.74 inches and weighs 3.2 pounds. For reference, it is lighter than many 16, 14, or even a few 13 inch laptops, and it does not renounce hardware to reach there.
Village 17 is equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 7 “Lunar Lake” processor, 32 GB RAM, and a terabyte of storage, with other competitive mid-to-tier-tier laptops in the same price range.
Where it stands out of the crowd, however, its form. Record-coolding is a laptop as a result of the lightning that is easy to move around, especially if you are a hybrid worker who comes to the office. I took this laptop with me everywhere for more than a week and saw barely in my bag.
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In addition, the 17 -inch touchscreen display is everything you will expect from a WQXGA (2560×1600) IPS: it is bright, crisp, and very well dazzled. I am not a very large touchscreen person (I almost always prefer a mouse), but the shriek shape of the screen on this laptop invites the user to interact with it, which is slightly different than other laptops, and I used myself to use myself more often.
He said, very thin screen is rather wobbly and flexes back and forth with each press, which will urinate some users.
Other physical components of the laptop are smooth and well designed. The full -sized keyboard is rather standard, comparatively with flat keys which are not quite premium in the form of some other recently tested laptops, such as HP’s Elitebook X G1A, but it is functional.
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Similarly, the touchpad is large and responsible, although I want to say that I want there was a haptic option. In addition, the overall size of the laptop results in the comfort area of the wrist which is quite wide. Typing on gram 17 means your entire hand, and – depending on the size of your arms – middle cells will be rested on the laptop. You will also need the appropriate desk space, with 15 inches and 10 inches deep in the length of the lower half of the chlamshell.
LG continues to produce its gram chain with a black matte finish, which unfortunately, is a bit like a fingerprint magnet. Depending on what kind of light you are in, the surface of the laptop can show the smoke and print, and if you care about that kind, it can be a bit distracted.
As far as other hardware goes on board, I/O is strong, one HDMI port, two USB-CS (both power delivery and Thunderbolt 4 and support for displayports), two USB -is, one headphone jack and a Kensington lock slot. The speakers are not particularly good, looking on the shallow side (affected by the ultrathin form of the device, no doubt) but what you will expect from a middle-level laptop.
The real power behind this laptop is internal, though. Intel core Ultra 7 (Series 2), apart from the “Lunar Lake” processor, upgrade it to a truly competitive device rather than just an engineering showbot.
Intel with other laptops with Intel’s “Lunar Lake” series, such as Asas Zenbook S14, the battery drain slows for a trickle when it is inactive, allows multi-day use without worrying about the charger.
Focusing, continuous use, however, the kind of battery drain expected, with the work of the entire eight-hour day at a charge, with long-term scaving for a long time, depends on how difficult you depend on how difficult you. This is to say, battery life on it is very good, especially given that it is strengthening 17 inch performance.
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So, how does Gram 17 vary from Pro? First, Pro has more horsepower, 16-core Intel core with Ultra 7, unlike the same chip but with eight core on the base model. The Pro also has a larger 90Wh battery than the 77wh of the base model, which means it can remain unplugged for a long time.
Regardless of the strength, Village Pro 17 is also slightly slightly thin and light, as you are paying for more premium design. But shoulder to shoulder, two laptops look almost the same.
Neither the 17-inch version comes with an OLED display (you have to go down to Gram Pro 16 for that), but the Pro is the 144Hz refresh rate unlike the base model, which cap on 60Hz.
In addition, with the same I/O selection, color and design plan, the difference here is relatively subtle, jumping into the pro version with 16GB RAM despite the price of $ 380. In contrast, the gram 17 base model with 32GB RAM is cheaper, starting at $ 1,699.
For that reason, I recommend LG Village 17 on the Pro version until you do not fully intention to push the form factor, as far as this battery can go in terms of life and power.
Talking about battery life, I did a little gaming on this laptop, and after a handful of updates, it performed well, but the battery life takes a hit. I also found some graphical glitter (fad, polygon) while testing it, but the Intel Arc GPU holds its own, especially for the titles that are not specifically demanding.
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“Lunar Lake” is a cool running laptop as a result of Intel Chip. Even with crank to fans, it is never really warm to uncomfortable temperatures, especially given how hot I remember the Village Pro 16 of the previous year.
Finally, I will mention the village’s on-device AI, “Gram Chat”, which is the ownership AI-operated assistant of LG that is going to help the user find solutions to general issues such as detection or troubleshooting. I would say that for very basic requests, it works, but it does not understand the conversion signals, very few.
On-device AI is something that different manufacturers are trying, but as most users will accept, the results are mixed, at least for now. LG’s gram chat may be useful for something, but I could not return myself after some of my first efforts.
ZDNET purchase advice
Village of LG 17 There is an incredibly diluted and light laptop, and the Intel Core Ultra 7, in addition to the “Lunar Lake” processor, completes the picture with direct improvement about consumers.
The $ 1,700 price point is at high end, but this laptop is an engineering details. You will not find a thin, light, 17 inch laptop there. The price of LG Gram Pro 17 will be around $ 400 more, but it offers a more powerful processor, a large battery and more premium build. Just for clarity, this means that it exceeds a mark of $ 2,000. For most users, however, base model Gram 17 is a solid option for consumers who love a large performance and impressive form factor.
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