LG has announced new additions to its Gram and Gram Pro ultra-lightweight laptops, adding cloud and AI-enabled features that go beyond the current Gram laptops.
The 16-inch Gram Pro will also be the first Copilot Plus PC in the LG Gram lineup and the only model to use Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra V-Series processors. The 17-inch Gram Pro and the 16-inch 2-in-1 use Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra H-Series processors.
The LG Gram Pro will be available in 17-inch and 16-inch models with 2560 x 1600 displays, up to 32GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and up to 2TB of NVMe Gen4 SSD storage. The 16-inch Gram Pro and 16-inch LG Gram Pro 2-in-1 will feature Intel Arc GPUs, while the 17-inch Gram Pro will be equipped with 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 view “web pages, documents, videos, and audio files” they have recently accessed. LG’s software adds tools similar to Microsoft’s Copilot Plus suite and Apple’s Intelligence, but given the problems Microsoft has had with Recall, we’ll have to wait and see what comes of it.
It may also make these features available on more PCs, but LG hasn’t specified which AI features will be available on the new Gram laptops.
Gram Chat Cloud is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o and answers queries using “extensive web databases to provide detailed and comprehensive answers”, integrating with calendar and email. It requires an active internet connection and will be free for the first year only.
All new Gram notebooks also support LG Gram Link 2.0 technology, which makes it easy to share documents and files with other PCs and iOS or Android smartphones. It also allows you to answer incoming phone calls through your Gram notebooks, so you don’t have to temporarily connect your headset or Bluetooth headphones to another device.
Next year, LG will also introduce an entry-level Gram Book laptop to the U.S. market. Powered by an Intel Core i5 processor, it features a 15.6-inch Full HD 60Hz display, 720p webcam, and configurations of up to 1TB SSD and 16GB DDR4 memory.
