LG Gram Pro 16 (2025) Review: Thin Still Still

The 360 degree hinge can be used with some screwing. I found that its looseness caused the screen to bounce and bounce a lot when I tapped my fingertips, threatening to cause a motor disease after reuse.

Battery life is also poor. Although LG claims that “AI-optimized battery efficiency” may be over 24 hours, I only had over eight hours in the full-screen YouTube playback test. (The typical battery score for a 16-inch laptop runs for 12 to 14 hours in this test.) Usually I tested it with full brightness, but LG seems to have some buried settings that I can’t find that automatically displays the monitor regularly. Even if I found suggestions through searching the network, I couldn’t disable the feature. Most importantly, the above eight-hour battery marking is not only low, but may be better than the usual luminosity caused. For this, even at maximum brightness, Gram Professional LCDs are very short.

I also encountered some lingering operational troubles, namely, Wi-Fi implementation around laptops. The system is repeatedly disconnected from Wi-Fi during initial setup and occasionally disconnected during regular use, although never as shocking as I’ve experienced in my Windows configuration.

This may sound like a lot of negatives, but apart from battery issues and keyboards, the issues are largely manageable. However, for this configuration, $1,500 (even more expensive from LG!), the Gram Pro 16 is getting there, and the upgraded version has a Core Ultra 9 CPU, 32 GB of RAM and a 2-TB SSD, making it harder to swallow. LG still has some kinks to use from GRAM Pro Design, but it covers a lot of basics since 2024, so it’s worth mentioning the qualifying recommendations updated for 2025.