LG gram 16Z90P Black, Ultra-lightweight 1,190g, 16-inch
LG gram 16Z90P Black, Ultra-lightweight 1,190g, 16-inch Laptop, Long Lasting Battery up to 22 hours, Intel Core i7-11th Gen, 16 GB, SSD 512 GB
| Weight: | 1.19 kg |
| Dimensions: | 46.7 x 29.2 x 6.3 cm; 1.19 Kilograms |
| Brand: | LG Electronics |
| Colour: | Black |
| Manufacture: | LG Electronics |
| Dimensions: | 46.7 x 29.2 x 6.3 cm; 1.19 Kilograms |
This is the thinnest lightest weight laptop with I7 processor on the market. Very powerful and fast. Can lift it holding just by its corner as strong aluminium frame. Display is between HD and 4k UHD.battery lasts for nearly 20 hours. Boots up in seconds from fully off.
It does it says on the box so very happy, light fast, makes you look after it, a keepe
My old Windows 7 laptop cost me 350 6 or 7 years ago, so it’s hardly a surprise that this is faster! Even much faster! What did surprise me is that the screen on this is rather taller and thinner than my old Lenovo 17in, and I think definitely rather smaller, though I haven’t measured it. Good clear screen, but the size bothers me for some graphics work, and I’m about to try pairing it with a 27″ monitor. It’s certainly lightweight, especially compared to my old Lenovo which is a real chunk of metal, and yes the battery does last pretty well, though I think 19 hours is a bit of an exaggeration. This will last me some years, and it doesn’t bother me that this traditional set-up is already being superseded by touchscreen laptops running Windows 11, but I imagine it would bother some people. This is supposed to come with a free Windows 11 update, but when I looked at that when I got this model I got a message saying that some piece of software was not compatible and I couldn’t update. It doesn’t bother me that much, and maybe if I had pursued it I could have got it to work, but it certainly wasn’t the straightforward update it sounded like.
Everything to love so far. Set up was easy. Smooth laptop. Speedy amd sooo light. Perfect for getting around with.
Was sceptical about buying refurbished products, however this laptop is an absolute gem of a find. Starts up really quickly, great functionality and the battery life so far is just brilliant. Would definitely recommend this product.
I have the 16 and the screen is a good size.
It’s light with a good size keyboard.
The fan can be set to silent, which is pretty quiet for an i7, not completely silent like an i5 surface pro, but a lot more powerful and I found a much more usable screen.
I wanted this to streem twitch when gaming. Was concerned as was lagging alot. Also no sound… after all the updates, I had sound and was very smooth. Nice clear screen. Love the keyboard. Streaming twitch worked like a dream. Theres no ethernet connection. But the wifi worked beautiful. It’s very light weight and fast boot ups is nice. The setting up was a little different, as theres a voice to guide you through. Very please with this laptop.
Also the battery life is amazing. Lasting for hours of streaming..
Very fast start up and operation, easily handles my music production software. Very light in weight! Haven’t really put it through any hardship yet but it seems a very capable machine compared to my previous cheaper laptops and probably worth the investment. It’s just a very nice laptop! Would recommend.
Early days but so far certainly one of the best laptops I have ever used.
Very fast and very light but not at all flimsy.
Otherwise first impressions are that it is a fabulous laptop and is as its describe light, powerful and great battery life turned it on for three working days (not continuous use) without plugging it in.
I’m just editing this to lend a bit of balance to the review. As another reviewer says, the fingerprint recognition is very inconsistent and really doesn’t work terribly well. I probably just need to add additional versions of the same finger to cover all angles, but honestly, it’s a weakness of the machine and a touch frustrating.
Secondly, another reviewer mentioned glitchiness. Again, I did have a period where the screen of the laptop would kind of freeze and a fuzzy mess of coloured dots would appear instead of the wallpaper and desktop view for several seconds. It wasn’t a total freeze and the external monitors continued fine. I thought this was perhaps caused by a substandard cable to one of my external monitors, but I am starting to think that this is now not the case. Regardless, there have been a few windows updates since and it seems to have cured it, so it was likely a driver or OS issue – certainly not hardware.
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I only gave 4 stars for battery life because it is nowhere near the advertised 18 hours. It is, however, solidly between 6 and 8 hours of heavy work. So I’m definitely 4-star happy in that respect.
I applied an anti-glare cover from the outset before even booting this thing up for the first time, as this was the only aspect putting me off. I ended up with a few small bubbles on the far side and one or two specs of dust, but ultimately, I’m really pleased as there is no glare at all. The screen itself is fab, sitting nicely between FHD and 4K – it genuinely is stunning.
It is super lightweight, which I initially thought would be a “meh” feature. I’ve grown to love this though. It makes it eminently wieldy. The size was a big surprise, it more or less matches the footprint of the Dell 15 incher it is replacing, but with a bigger screen. It’s way lighter and therefore more portable too.
It’s seriously quiet. I’ve never noticed the fan once in the couple of months I’ve been using it (and I use it day in, day out for work). It powers an external 32-inch 4k monitor and 24-inch HD monitor absolutely fine.
The ports included are a big selling point in this day and age. It genuinely is handy to have a built-in HDMI and 2 old-school USBs. The newer USBs both charge the laptop and can do whatever newer USBs can do (which is quite a wide variety of things).
The wi-fi 6 was another surprise. The difference between my 5GHz and 2.4GHz frequency network is now almost double in terms of speed. There was no difference with my old laptop. This means I’ve gone from around 20 Mbps to close to 40 Mbps. I’m therefore not at all bothered by the lack of ethernet port, although with a machine this size, it wouldn’t have hurt to include one if I want to get really petty.
I’m yet to use the micro-SD port, but fully intend to for a backup drive. Probably on my Prime Day purchase list.
I like the keyboard plastic/rubber dust cover. It remains a permanent feature now, even when typing on it. I tend to use an external keyboard most of the time for work, however.
The size of the screen is most definitely one of my favourite aspects of this machine. I don’t get this obsession with going small to 13 inches, it makes no sense to me at all.
The bottom line is that I really love everything about this laptop, and just when I felt I couldn’t get more satisfied, LP sent me free gifts of a Herschel laptop backpack and some LG tone earbuds. Thank you very much! (I had to register by a certain date)
The cherry on the top was that I bought this during the Easter sales for 1300 – 250 quid off. I genuinely feel that that is good value for money for a high-end product that is unique in the fact that it is a highly portable 17-inch laptop. If they produced a 19-inch version, I’d probably buy that too, they are that good.
The only bloatware seemed to be Windows default bloatware and easily removed (e.g. Spotify)
I needed a Windows machine to run some specific software for my app development work, but within 12 hours of owning this I’ve moved everything onto it and will use it as my main laptop.
It’s lighter and lasts longer (battery-wise) than my VERY high spec Macbook Pro.
LG Gram is so light, as if it is not a laptop with 17″ screen. I only need to learn more, because I’m MAC user.
Is there any video tutorial for Windows 10?
thank you.
Regards,
Roddy R Penalosa
I like this laptop, its fast and the screen is beautiful, it has more than enough inputs.
The battery can last the whole day, runs very silent while is really snappy and responsive,
Can’t fault this laptop, really good for productivity.
The Great:
– Very, very light. Lightest laptop I’ve ever used.
– Huge clear screen.
– Unrivaled battery life. Lasts me a day or two easily.
– If you register on the LG website eaarly, they offer a free set of LG wireless noise-cancelling earbuds (about 180 normally) and a Herschel backpack. Nice extras. First come, first serve.
The Good:
– Reasonably sturdy. Mil-Spec (sort of..)
– Latest 11th Gen Intel CPU has the excellent inegrated Iris Xe graphics capability. If you are a hard-core gamer you will be surprised at the graphics performance, though you might prefer a dedicated graphics card. For the rest of us, who hate loud fans, fat laptops, bad battery life and scorched thighs this has been a long time coming.
– Adequate ports. There are only two Thunderbird 4 / USB C ports, but they are Thunderbird 4! Also has two standard USB 3.2 ports, which are very handy. And an HDMI port, bless LG. You might easily be able to get away without buying a dock with these ports, but if you want an Ethernet port, two external monitors or a full-size SD card slot you will hae to buy one. Still, pretty good.
– CPU, memory and solid state drive are nice and nippy. You can buy more powerful laptops, but these days the top of the middle range of CPUs are really quite quick.
The Not-So-Good:
– Camera. People complain about this, but it seems to me perfectly adequate for Zoom and Teams. All laptop cameras seem to have a short focal-length wide-angle thing happening, but what can you do?
– Sound. People complain about this, as well. I have heard better laptop sound quality, but you can’t expect good bass out of a laptop. I found it perfectly adequate and loud for calls, YouTube sounds OK.
– Keyboard. Not a big fan of flat-topped keys, and could have a little more travel. Although, they have increased the key travel over the previous model.
– Upgradability / Repair. I really hate that they soldered the memory and SDD into the laptop. It doesn’t bode well for the repairability or upgrade path. I compare this to the Dell XPS series or ThinkPads that I have fixed and upgraded over the decades.
– Screen Colour. The colours are way over-saturated to start. LG provides a utility to warm them up, but haven’t quite sorted this out.
Positives:
Massive, beautiful screen
Incredibly light, the reviews aren’t exaggerating this.
New fast gen11 intel CPU, sure AMD may give you more cores but don’t beat intel in single core performance and don’t have thunderbolt which I need for my 10gbe adapter and eGPU enclosure.
Very quiet cooling with the option to run it virtually silently (with reduced performance).
Good selection of ports
Good touchpad
Downsides are:
Ram is soldered on the 2021 versions so no upgrade options, I’d suggest avoiding the 8gb version for this reason.
It’s expensive (although only really compared with 13-15 inch laptops). Any other option will be a compromise – cheaper 17 inch laptops will be much heavier and slower with lower resolution, more powerful laptops like the XPS 17 are still heavier than this and are more expensive.
No touchscreen on the 17 inch model. I almost held out for the 16 inch convertible but realised I could be waiting a while and it will be heavier and cost more. Touchscreen is nice to have but I can live without it.
Keyboard – because it has the numberpad the layout is asymmetrical. How well this suits you will depend on your typing style any whether you use it on a desk or not. I find it a little uncomfortable but I’m getting used to it.
I was a bit worried that it would feel flimsy (as it is so light)… it actually feels quite solid. The i7 is pretty speedy… boots up fast, finger print log-on is near instant. Not had a chance to run the graphics through any serious test yet.
The screen is gorgeous! I knew LG would excel here as they knock out some fantastic TVs.
They keyboard is good, not as nice as my old lenovo…. but maybe I just need to get used to it.
I went for the 16gb option, as 8gb seems too low in this day and age.
As another reviewer mentioned… the webcam isnt great. Seems to be a fairly common issue with laptops though which is bizarre.
Overall, pretty happy with it… the aspect ratio of the screen is great if you want to get some work done, or surf the web (slightly taller than regular screens).
You could probably get better specs for less money…but you’d lose out on battery life.