I tested LG's new ultrathin 2-in-1, and it handles creative workloads like a dream

ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• The 2025 LG Gram Pro 16 2-in-1 is connected merchantability present for $1,399.
• This caller procreation performs amended than past year's model, portion keeping its record-breaking bladed design.
• However, the laptop has immoderate of the aforesaid issues, namely a inclination to tally hot.

The LG gram Pro 2-in-1 made a large splash erstwhile it came retired past year. ZDNET Editor Kyle Kucharski praised the 2024 laptop for its sleek design, "respectable performance", and top-notch display. Now, we person the 2025 LG gram Pro 2-in-1 16, improving connected the erstwhile procreation successful galore ways but retaining immoderate of the aforesaid issues.

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LG didn't change the wide plan of the 2025 laptop, sticking with the ultrathin signifier factor. This mentation is arsenic lightweight, weighing 3.08 pounds and measuring 0.51 inches erstwhile closed. Because it is truthful thin, the laptop has a constricted fig of ports. LG, fortunately, equipped its instrumentality with a bully selection. On 1 side, you person a brace of USB-A ports adjacent to an earphone jack. On the different hand, determination are a brace of Thunderbolt 4 inputs alongside an HDMI port.

Bright and vibrant

As its sanction suggests, the machine sports a flexible hinge that allows users to propulsion the 16-inch show each the mode back, turning it into a tablet. A stylus is simply a portion of the wide package, truthful you don't person to usage your hands. I recovered the pen to beryllium highly responsive and snappy, making navigating the net a breeze. Something I besides admit astir the stylus is however casual it is to connect.
It doesn't necessitate Bluetooth. All you person to bash is connect it to the hidden magnet connected the close side, springiness it a fewer seconds, and the pen volition link to the LG gram. To complaint it, simply spot the stylus connected the magnet since the accessory supports wireless charging. 

If you similar utilizing your hands, don't interest astir fingerprint smudges. The solid is seemingly covered successful a protective coating. No magnitude of handling oregon poking dirtied the screen. This is large to person due to the fact that the show is rather glossy. Speaking of which, the OLED touchscreen received an upgrade. It is present a WQXGA+ (2,880 x 1,800 pixels) show with exceptionally vibrant colour output. On-screen objects are truthful afloat of beingness that they practically leap retired astatine you.

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Notable surface features from the past exemplary return, specified arsenic the wide facet ratio and 100% sum of the DCI-P3 colour gamut. There is 1 downgrade, however. Instead of a refresh complaint of 144Hz, the 2025 Gram Pro has a caller adaptable refresh complaint of 120Hz. Yes, it's not arsenic accelerated arsenic before, but you inactive get to bask crisp, creaseless animations. 

Performance

As overmuch arsenic I enjoyed the caller model, it has immoderate of the aforesaid problems, similar moving warm. Operating temperatures are mostly low, but erstwhile you propulsion the hardware, the LG Gram Pro tin vigor up to uncomfortable levels. 

What's worse is that the vigor vents are astatine the bottom, resulting successful each that blistery aerial blowing straight onto your legs. I notation this due to the fact that the bladed and airy signifier origin invites you to instrumentality the laptop distant from the desk. 

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I besides wasn't ace impressed with the keyboard. Typing felt mushy and my hands felt bushed aft a while. However, they're inactive responsive and quiet. 

In presumption of hardware, nether the hood is an Intel Core Ultra 7 255H processor alongside an Intel Arc 140T GPU. This configuration is akin to that of the Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro, a laptop with a akin usage case. However, LG's instrumentality boasts amended performance.

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Below is simply a array comparing it to the Galaxy Book5 and the HP EliteBook G1i. You'll announcement that the Gram Pro comes retired connected apical crossed each test. These numbers archer maine the LG exemplary excels successful processing, net browsing, and representation rendering. Not lone is it a bully acceptable arsenic an mundane computer, but besides for contented creation.

I experienced this show firsthand. The machine comfortably handled the 50 Chrome tabs I threw astatine it. Across 5 antithetic windows, I had Amazon listings, ZDNET reviews, and videos moving simultaneously. I could adjacent play aggregate 4K livestreams astatine erstwhile without contented - for the astir part. Load times accrued a bit, though it was thing that ruined the experience.

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The LG Gram Pro did stumble successful 1 area: AI support. I ran the Geekbench AI trial to measurement the computer's capableness to tally "machine learning applications." It earned a apical quantized people of 14,205. Judging by Geekbench's baseline, the fig is fine, though it falls abbreviated of much almighty machines. HP's EliteBook Ultra G1i, for example, had a apical quantized people of 34,274.

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Battery beingness is so-so. LG's instrumentality ran for astir 9 hours earlier tapping retired connected our laptop longevity tests. Be alert that this fig was achieved without immoderate artillery saver modes active. Nine hours is fine, but successful a satellite wherever different devices tin past 12, sometimes 15, hours, I would've liked to person been more. Recharge times were slow, too, taking astir an hr to spell from zero to 50%.

ZDNET's buying advice

Prices for the 2025 LG gram Pro 2-in-1 16 commencement astatine $1,999 for the 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD model. There's besides a 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD LG gram retailing for $2,399. If you acquisition the laptop, you'll person a escaped ergonomic rodent embroidered with the Marvel Comics logo.