LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨drmoose@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-it/2026/01/01/UB6GKZX6NVCNBOPBI2WVTS2DH4/

Weight Comparison

Model	Weight (grams)	Screen Size
LG Gram Pro 16 (2026)	1,199	16-inch
MacBook Air 15 (M4/M3)	1,510	15-inch
MacBook Pro 14 (M5/M3)	1,550-1,600	14-inch
MacBook Pro 16 (M3+)	2,140-2,200	16-inch

source

Comments

Sort:hotnew top

iMastari@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Probably with unskippable advertisements.

source
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m guessing it’ll pair horrible battery life with awful build quality like most Windows laptops tend to do. They’re all focusing on being thin and light like a MacBook but none of them are close to what Apple has, because of that they loose everything that makes PCs special in the desperate attempt to achieve something Apple does better.

source
- verdi@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  *Looks at a 5y old G14 that gives a modern m4 Air a run for its money.
  
  Yeah, Imma call BS on that. Apple has a handful of product lines that share vertically integrated components that allows them the economies of scale to integrate great things like their glass trackpad in cheaper models like the air. That said, there are several premium laptops at the same price tags than Apple that are arguably a better choice than the Apple offerings, the aforementioned G14 among them, especially if one takes linux compatibility seriously.
  
  source
  - boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The CPU in the 2025 G14 seems to give the M4 Air a run for its money, I wouldn’t be so sure about a 5 year old one though unless you got a very high spec one. The G14 does have a much better GPU and display than the Air, but that’s sorta expected at close to twice the price.
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
- Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I believe the gram is know to have decent build quality. I’m sure it doesn’t compare to an M series Mac when it comes to performance and battery life, but at least I could put Linux on it.
  
  source
- amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  And then they all go to a landfill near you. When was LG a name on the laptop market?
  
  Companies like this should not be allowed to churn crap like this
  
  source
  - Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    And then the all go to a landfill near you
    
    I must assume you’re talking about LG and Apple laptops both.
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m not going to buy anything from LG any more. My ongoing battle against my own LG TV’s enshittification (forced ads and AI everywhere, getting worse every update) has soured my opinion on LG. They can go to hell.

source
- scala@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Easy workaround, don’t ever let your TV access the internet.
  
  source
  - RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Well the problem is we only use the TV for streaming and my partner wants Netflix and other commercial stuff. Which means I would have to connect another internet device to the TV where the same problem happens again. Going exclusively Jellyfin or whatever is not a solution at this time
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
  - Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Easy workaround if you have a stb that has AV1 compatibility or pirated content to stream locally
    
    source
- drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I agree, LG is a pretty awful brand all around but I really like the idea of new lighter materials used in consumer hardware. Moving away from plastics to metal frames has been nothing but a fashion mistake.
  
  source
  - boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’ve actually always liked the solid feel of Macbooks. There are lighter laptops out there, but few if any feel as solid. At least in the class I touch outside Macbooks (Thinkpad T series).
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
- frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Really? I thought LG was known for making the least smart TVs. I bought one not too long ago and I haven’t noticed a single smart feature.
  
  source
  - RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I had to setup a custom pihole LG blacklist to keep it from displaying ads in the menu. And LG is well known for spying on their customers in the worst way possible
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
So no ports, a shitty battery and OS level spyware? Pass.

source
- iopq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Wait you keep the original OEM install? For what purpose?
  
  source
  - Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    My current Laptop was bought with no OS. I refuse to give my money to Microsoft.
    
    source
- msage@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Put Linux on it.
  
  It made my Yoga last about 3 hours longer than Windows.
  
  source
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Well if it’s anything like their previous models then it probably feels like it’s a toy. I remembered playing with a display model when I was thinking of buy it and was amazing by how flimsy it was.

On paper they seem like good laptops. But in practice?

source
- drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I don’t think your personal anecdote is grounded in any meaningful reality. Laptop tech has been mostly solved for better part of a decade now and even cheap aliexpress laptops are built well enough to hold for years.
  
  source
  - acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    “built well enough to hold for years” is the bare minimum in laptop quality. sure, lots of crappy flimsy laptops will last “years” but they are still crappy flimsy laptops.
    
    also tons has changed in laptops over the last decade, particularly in efficiency.
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
PurpleFanatic@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
But… Do we need laptops any lighter than this? Like, I’m not moving around my 13 inch Macbook and thinking: “oh god this is a beast”. My biggest issue with laptops now days is battery life and performance, both of which my Macbook meets perfectly. Not that I like the OS or the company tbh, especially as a FOSS enthusiast.

source
- drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Weight is definitely old of those things that you only notice when you notice but it’s still just a nice to have rather that critical feature. Like a more ergonomic keyboard etc. Many good parts make a good machine.
  
  source
- idefix@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It’s one of my main criteria for my next personal laptop. I commute very frequently and travel between 2 homes, most of the time by bike and public transportation. I want to carry as light as possible.
  
  I have a tablet but it’s nowhere near the flexibility of a Linux laptop.
  
  source
- frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yes. Weight reduction in one place means they can increase weight in other, like battery density or heftier components (are chips and heatsinks major contributors to weight?) without affecting total weight. Same way making a phone thinner allows you to add more battery.
  
  source
- olmecSSB@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I think we have gone way past the ideal weight for laptops. My favorite laptop weight wise was an HO from 2009. It was 6 pounds. That thing was great. You could sit it in your lap, and it would stay there. I have a MacBook at half that weight, and it slips off my lap constantly. Part of that is the material, but part of it is that it is so light.
  
  I really wish we could start focusing on ideal dimensions, rather than focusing on extremes just for the headlines.
  
  source
- wiegell@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I just bought an old thinkpad (x280) and i’m delighted how much lighter it is than my 16” mbp
  
  source
- Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Other people apart from you also buy laptops.
  
  source
RepleteLocum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Claims to be an ai laptop. Has 8 GB of vram in a 5050.

source
- glog78@digitalcourage.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  @RepleteLocum @drmoose
  The LLM's are not run on the gpu but rather on the cpu "AMD Ryzen AI 400" for the higher model and use therefor the system memory.
  source
  - TheOakTree@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I feel like the “AI capable” marketed CPUs are a sham. For the average user, it’s just going to feel slow compared to cloud compute, so it’s just training the average person to not bother buying AI-labelled hardware for AI.
    
    source
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Almost as good as a macbook from 5 years ago, for only twice the price!

source
- Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’d take a “my first Sony”-notebook over those crapbooks for the technologically challenged 😁
  
  source
- drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not sure what you mean by that? Macbooks aren’t good laptops to begin with.
  
  source
etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Just removed the battery.

source
melfie@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Meanwhile, I just got a cooling pad for my $800 laptop with a RTX 4060 that makes it bulkier and heavier, but 20C cooler when doing Blender renders. The sleek $3000 MacBook Pro I got from work would only render at half the speed, though it wouldn’t need the cooling pad. As long as I can work from the sofa or bed on a reasonably powerful machine, it’s not worth almost quadrupole the price for thinner and lighter, especially with less muscle.

source
- drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Have you looked into streaming from a desktop? I’m using sunshine/moonlight to stream my video editor from gaming PC to Thinkpad and it works really well! The quality and responsiveness is really good these days to the point where it’s hard to even tell it’s a stream.
  
  source
  - sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    When you say stream you mean remote desktop, right?
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
  - 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    This is the way
    
    You get all the power of a PC. There’s literally no better way to work on the go, and you can buy the cheapest little laptop known to man.
    
    source
  - melfie@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’ve used them quite a lot to stream games from a PC to a Steam Deck and a Nvidia Shield and agreed that the 2 projects are fantastic.
    
    source
embed_me@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The question is does it run as silent as apple laptops?

source
- Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Silence, at least under light load, is honestly such a nice feature.
  
  source
  - ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I bought my desktop at an auction for a self-driving car startup that was shutting down. Amazing specs, great price. It had two RTX 2080 Ti cards in there. Loudest GPU fan I’ve ever heard in my life. All the other fans in the computer are Noctua but I guess the Ti cards are strictly optimized for performance and not necessarily gaming. I got some nice speakers that are color-coordinated with the desktop but when I’m doing some serious gaming I have to use noise-cancelling headphones to tune out the sound of the GPU fan. Might get a different GPU at some point but it’s out of my fun budget right now.
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
- Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The question is can I run Linux on it.
  
  source
- drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Most non-gaming laptops since 2010 don’t really make noticeable noise
  
  source
  - acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    2010 lol. no.
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
- ignirtoq@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Personally I’m fine with them taking the noise levels from the aerospace industry, too. My primary concern is how’s the battery life?
  
  source
  - acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    well more noise usually means worse battery life.
    
    source
FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
kinda fascinating how they manage to cram RTX GPUs in there, makes me wonder about the cooling. If the new models are anything like the current models they’ll even have decent I/O (minus the ethernet port grumble grumble)

If they offered an AMD version with a dedicated AMD GPU I’d even be half interested. But not really, my ThinkPad P14s is gonna serve me well for the next 10 years or so.

source
tyrant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I get the appeal of a lightweight device but i personally like a little weight as long as it is heavy because it _b … I just woke up and realized I fell asleep typing my comment. I literally bored myself to sleep.

source
plz1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Macbook Air isn’t just about the weight, the processor/horsepower are a draw. I have to wonder if LG can compete with Apple’s performance, rather than just making a lighter laptop. The Macbook Air is already quite light. The Macbook Pro is a beast.

source
lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Ofc with AI™

source
kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Makes it easier to throw into the bin after 2 years when shit stops working, unlike on a macbook

source
- surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This is some legitimately backwards thinking.
  
  I was on charge of end user devices for a company of 70k people. 70k laptops and desktops. Macs were depreciated over 3 years. Windows devices were depreciated over 5. Repair rates were equivalent, but it was a lot easier to repair the windows devices in house.
  
  source
- cevn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  My mbp monitor failed after 2 years and it would have been 1k to fix. So no.
  
  source
vogi@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Do you actually want super light laptops? I feel like there is a sweet spot, but who knows maybe I would even want one, never held it in my hands/used it.

I feel like this comes at the cost of repairability as well though.

source
- drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It does make a difference, especially when the gains are so massive. Personally I don’t care much for it but free weight loss is free weight loss. Hopefully this tech gets adopted by other laptop brands.
  
  source
aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
People looking to make an airfoil out of their laptop or some shit?

It’s still the same fucking Tiktok guys.

source
- drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Tbf half the weight is huge gains. There a big difference between carrying 2 kilograms and 1.
  
  source
Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
With another AI talk to try to hype up consumers in the article, I wouldn’t be surprised this thing is pretty much like a Chromebook that has to call servers to do much things… Still sticking to older tech

source
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
What a misleading title! It says 2026 gram laptop but that’s so heavy it’s 1199 grams wtfff

source
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I think i will rather add a framework mainboard if i feel my 2028 Thinkpad needs an upgrade.

source
Alloi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
im building a cyber deck, fuck this shit.

source