Reddit reviews LG gram Thin and Light Laptop - 17" (2560 x 1600) IPS Display, Intel 8th Gen Core i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, up to 19.5 Hour Battery, Thunderbolt 3 - 17Z990-R.AAS8U1 (2019), Dark Silver

https://www.amazon.com/LG-Gram-Thin-Light-Laptop/dp/B07MNDYX9Z

Nice laptop but only 16 gb or ram

As said if you want a laptop with big screen but is also light weight this is your best option .

Those are weird and oddly specific specs (I'm doing a cs degree and I just generally know hardware)

At this point in time, I'd be surprised if any current laptop didnt have an ssd, and I'd recommend having access to at least 1 tb of storage (dont restrict yourself only to internal storage on the laptop)

As for ram, windows tends to run at the speed of smell on systems with less than about 12 GB (especially if you use chrome regularly). I'd reccomend 16 as it's the next standard ram spec up from 8 and it will make actually using the laptop a much smoother experience. In data analysis, you could probably squeak by with 8 GB if you're really tight on money, but I do not reccomend it as that specific type of work uses a ton of ram.

For cpu spec, be careful, for faster operation, make sure you find a cpu capable of hyper/multithreading, it's going to be useful for very intense single processes. As for core count, I cant really see needing more than 4 for for almost anything.

GPU doesn't really matter in this case (some people might disagree with that).


This LG gram meets all my recommendations for $1500 and is only 3 pounds so it'll be easy to walk around campus with.

Build quality wise this is the better option.

It's really heavy at 6.63 pounds. I saw this LG at Costco today but was hoping for a metal chasis. Also on Amazon.