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LG has announced additions to its line of ultralight Gram and Gram Pro laptops, adding cloud-based and ai-based features to the device that go beyond its current Gram laptops.
The 16-inch Gram Pro will also be the first Copilot Plus PC in the LG Gram line and is also distinguished as the only model to use Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra V-Series processors. The 17-inch Gram Pro and 16-inch 2-in-1 use Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra H-Series processors.
The LG Gram Pro will be available in 17- and 16-inch models with 2560 x 1600 displays, up to 32GB of LPDDR5X memory, and up to 2TB of NVMe Gen4 SSD. The 16-inch Gram Pro and 16-inch LG Gram Pro 2-in-1 will have Intel Arc GPUs, while the 17-inch Gram Pro will feature an Nvidia GeForce RTX4050 graphics card.
Gram Chat On-Device, which uses a “small language model derived from LG ai Research's EXAONE large language model,” powers offline features, including Time Travel, which allows users to quickly revisit “web pages, documents, videos and audio files” that I have recently accessed. LG's software is adding similar tools to Microsoft's Copilot Plus suite and Apple Intelligence, but given the problems Microsoft has had with Recall, we'll have to wait and see how it all stacks up.
It could also make those features available on more PCs, but LG hasn't specified which ai features will be available on which laptops in the new Gram line.
Gram Chat Cloud is powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o and responds to queries using “vast web-based data sets for detailed and comprehensive responses” while integrating with email and calendar services. Requires an active Internet connection and will only be free for the first year.
All new Gram laptops also support LG's Gram Link 2.0, which makes it faster to share documents and files with other PCs and smartphones running iOS or Android. It also allows you to answer incoming phone calls through Gram laptops, so there is no need to temporarily switch Bluetooth headphones or earphones to another device.
LG too presents its basic level Gram Book to the US market next year. Powered by an Intel Core i5 processor, it features a 15.6-inch 60Hz Full HD display, a 720p webcam, and configurations of up to 1TB of SSD storage and 16GB of DDR4 memory.
