LG announces the ‘world’s lightest 17-inch RTX laptop’

LG is teasing the 2026 Gram Pro laptops that will beryllium afloat unveiled astatine CES, including what the institution claims is the “world’s lightest 17-inch RTX laptop.” The LG Gram Pro 17 (17Z90UR) and Gram Pro 16 (16Z90U) will present a caller ultralight “Aerominum material” developed by LG that intends to trim a laptop’s weight while reinforcing spot and scratch resistance.

The LG Gram Pro 17 will characteristic a 2,560 x 1600 display, paired pinch Nvidia’s RTX 5050 laptop GPU that has conscionable 8GB of VRAM. LG claims it will still supply “ample capacity for graphics-intensive tasks, contented creation, and gaming.” You won’t beryllium capable to tally astir modern games astatine maxed-out settings successful a playable authorities though, truthful you shouldn’t see the Gram Pro 17 arsenic a dedicated gaming laptop. LG hasn’t revealed really overmuch the Gram Pro 17 will really weigh, but notes that it will beryllium exclusive to the US astatine launch.

We besides don’t cognize the weight of the Gram Pro 16 yet — which features a 2,880 x 1,800 OLED show and Intel’s latest Core Ultra processors — but LG likewise says that this will beryllium “the lightest 16-inch laptop successful its people to characteristic some on-device and cloud-based AI.” The value and merchandise dates for some laptops haven’t been announced yet, but LG mightiness beryllium holding this backmost until the charismatic CES motorboat adjacent week.