LG gram 14

            The LG gram 14  is the larger complement to this year's 13-inch gram, making up part of LG's line of ultraportable laptops. The LG Gram is very plain. Weighing barely more than 2 pounds, but packing a Core i7 processor and more storage than many similar machines, the gram 14 is fast, capable, and posted a 15-hour battery life in our testing. The screen reproduces an excellent 135 percent of the sRGB color gamut, easily overtaking the ultraportable average (96 percent), the MacBook (107 percent), the Swift 7 (105 percent) and the XPS 13 (94 percent).  LG has a fairly comprehensive suite of software on the Gram, though quite a bit of it is redundant. The gram 14 weighs just 2.09 pounds and measures 0.6 by 12.7 by 8.3 inches (HWD), very light and compact for a 14-inch notebook. The nano carbon-and-magnesium-alloy material used for the body is lighter than metal alternatives, but a bit nicer than plastic. The LG Gram is a super thin PC with a flat keyboard, dark screen and webcam that focuses on your chin.

             Battery is impressive, with the gram 14 lasting 15 hours and 40 minutes on our rundown test. That's a several-hour improvement over the 13-inch gram (12:33) and better than the Rose Gold XPS 13 (10:42), Blade Stealth (9:20), and Spectre x360 13 (8:18). The screen is sharp and looks great, and it even manages more storage than most of the alternatives. The gram 14 supplies a full array of connectors, including a USB 3.0 port, a USB-C port, and an HDMI port on the left, with a micro SD slot, a headphone jack, and another USB 3.0 port on the right.