LG Gram Pro 2-in-1 16 (2025) Review: A Big, Bright Ultralight With a Twist

LG’s Gram Pro 16 is an ultraportable laptop well-suited for entertainment and content creation in either of its two configurations. The first is the Intel Core Ultra 7 255H variant reviewed here, with a 2,880-by-1,800-pixel OLED touch display. The second is a Copilot+ PC edition featuring a “Lunar Lake” Core Ultra 200V CPU and a 2,560-by-1,600-pixel IPS display. Our configuration delivers superior raw performance and a higher-quality screen, though it misses out on the Copilot+ suite of AI PC features since its neural processing unit (NPU) isn’t potent enough.

Tablet mode isn’t the primary intended use case for this oversize 2-in-1 convertible, since its 14.1-by-9.9-inch footprint is like cradling a cafeteria tray. Instead, make it an easel by opening the screen 270 degrees and resting it keyboard-side down. The included stylus feels natural, like a traditional ink pen. The OLED panel makes even my amateur drawings look attractive.

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LG achieves its feather-light 2.73-pound carry weight through the exclusive use of magnesium on the outside. It’s a remarkably flex-resistant design that defies its 0.5-inch profile and feels more substantial than previous Gram laptops. The Lenovo Yoga 7i 16, the Dell 16 Plus 2-in-1, and the 16-inch version of the HP OmniBook Flip aren’t nearly as trim. (The OmniBook is the lightest, at 4.15 pounds.)

Looks-wise, the Gram’s profile is its main visual highlight, as its all-black aesthetic is uninspiring. The laptop’s visual accoutrements begin and end with a small logo on the back of the lid. Certain models offer a more contrasty white chassis.

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LG’s port selection is useful: Two USB4 ports and an HDMI 2.1 monitor output sit on the left side of the base, while you’ll find two traditional USB Type-A ports and a 3.5mm audio jack on the right. The compact wall-mounted power adapter plugs into either USB4 port. LG included Intel Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 radios for wireless connectivity.

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Although it lacks a fingerprint reader, the Gram Pro includes an infrared webcam for facial-recognition logins using Windows Hello. LG’s standard warranty is one year, and Windows 11 Home comes preinstalled.

Above all else, using the Gram Pro 16 is comfortable. Its tall 16:10 screen sits just below eye level, and its keyboard and touchpad are within easy reach on the base. Touch-screen functionality enables natural interaction, such as pinching to zoom or swiping through images. The laptop’s diverse port selection reduces the need for adapters. I also found the Gram’s low weight encouraged me to take it from room to room more willingly than a typical laptop of this size.

LG’s expertise in TVs translated perfectly to the Gram Pro 16. The OLED panel delivers irresistible color. While shy of 4K, the screen’s 1800p resolution still produces immaculate clarity, it’s easier on battery life, and its 120Hz refresh rate enables super-smooth scrolling. I also couldn’t be more impressed by LG’s build quality. While some previous Gram laptops felt hollow, this Gram Pro feels dense. I feel comfortable picking this laptop up from any angle because it exhibits so little flex.

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The laptop’s thinness doesn’t compromise its typing feel: I hit my peak speed and achieved near-perfect accuracy in the MonkeyType online typing test on these keys. The keys require only light pressure and provide a satisfying cushion at the bottom of the keystroke, staving off fatigue. While the number pad has a nonstandard layout, it’s more of a bonus, anyway. The power button sits on the top right of the keyboard.

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The Gram Pro’s drawbacks are few but notable. The screen hinge should be stiffer in easel mode (oriented with the keyboard folded under, flat on the desk), as it wobbles with more than the lightest touch of a finger or the stylus. (Granted, it responds to the lightest touch, so I probably could adapt to using less force over time.) Additionally, the screen’s glossy surface creates distracting reflections in rooms with ambient or overhead lighting.

LG’s My Gram app provides a display adjustment mode to switch through color spaces and a reader mode to reduce blue light emissions. It also serves up system settings, including an OLED panel health saver that automatically darkens the screen after 30 minutes of inactivity and a battery-life care mode that limits battery charging. For the stylus, it provides seven nib- and three slope-sensitivity settings. You can also deactivate the stylus’ one button, which functions by default as a right-click while hovering.

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Dolby Atmos sound equalizers in the Dolby Atmos app help give the Gram decent speaker quality. While the electronic and acoustic music I sampled sounds slightly hollow, the bass and crispness add depth and make it satisfying overall.

LG’s Glance app uses the camera to judge your posture, warning you against slouching or leaning to the side, and reminds you to rest your eyes every 20 minutes. The app also provides presence detection to automatically lock the laptop or pause media if you move away, and it can blur the screen if it detects onlookers. Uniquely, you can move windows from one monitor to another simply by looking at the window you want to move, holding a keyboard shortcut, and then looking at your other monitor and releasing the key. These features aren’t for everyone—they require the camera to be always on, which can be uncomfortable—but they work as advertised.

For phone connectivity, LG also includes its Link app to connect iPhone or Android devices for screen mirroring and duplication, mouse and keyboard sharing, audio and camera sharing, and file sharing.

Our Gram Pro 2-in-1 16 test unit features an Intel Core Ultra 7 255H processor (16 cores consisting of six Performance, eight Efficient, and two Low Power Efficient cores; up to 5.1GHz turbo), Intel Arc 140T integrated graphics, 32GB of LPDDR5X-8400 memory, and two 1TB solid-state drives (2TB total storage).

Unlike previous models, this generation Gram Pro 16 doesn’t include a dedicated GPU option. While its on-chip Arc integrated graphics are powerful enough for this laptop’s intended use and it has decent enough AI processing, a dedicated GPU would have given it even more of an edge.

We’re comparing the Gram Pro 16 with larger portability-focused laptops because we haven’t tested any oversized convertibles recently. This heady mix of silicon includes x86 chips in the Acer Swift 16 AI ($1,199.99 as tested) and the Lenovo ThinkPad X9 15 Aura Edition ($2,069 as tested), Apple’s M4 in the MacBook Air 15-inch (2025) ($1,399 as tested), and Qualcomm Snapdragon X in the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 16 ($1,749.99 as tested).

Our primary overall benchmark, UL’s PCMark 10, tests a system in productivity apps ranging from web browsing to word processing and spreadsheet work. Its Full System Drive subtest measures a PC’s storage throughput. 

Three more tests are CPU-centric or processor-intensive: Maxon’s Cinebench 2024 uses that company’s Cinema 4D engine to render a complex scene; Primate Labs’ Geekbench 6.3 Pro simulates popular apps ranging from PDF rendering and speech recognition to machine learning; and we see how long it takes the video transcoder HandBrake 1.8 to convert a 12-minute clip from 4K to 1080p resolution. 

Finally, workstation maker Puget Systems’ PugetBench for Creators rates a PC’s image editing prowess by executing a series of automated operations in Adobe Photoshop 25.

LG’s Gram secured the top spot in the primary PCMark test, narrowly surpassing the ThinkPad and comfortably outpacing the Acer. It also matched the Acer for the highest storage test score. As for raw CPU performance, the Gram’s Core H-class processor proved superior to the V-series chips in both the Acer and ThinkPad.

While it wasn’t quick enough to catch the MacBook and Samsung in Cinebench, the Gram delivered comparable results in HandBrake and achieved a marginally higher Geekbench multi-core score. The Gram didn’t complete our Photoshop test, though this was due to a benchmark-related issue rather than a performance shortcoming.

While testing, the LG’s thin chassis became more than lukewarm, but not quite hot, around the center of the keyboard. Not once did I hear its cooling fans in the office environment where I tested.

We challenge each reviewed system’s graphics with a quartet of animations or gaming simulations from UL’s 3DMark test suite. Wild Life (1440p) and Wild Life Extreme (4K) use the Vulkan graphics API to measure GPU speeds. Steel Nomad’s regular (4K) and Light (1440p) subtests focus on APIs more commonly used for game development, like Metal, DirectX 12, and Vulkan, to assess gaming geometry and particle effects. A fifth test, Solar Bay, emphasizes ray-tracing performance using Vulkan or Metal APIs at 1440p resolution.

These laptops also demonstrated similar graphics scores, with the MacBook leading in some areas. The Gram’s performance is admirable for an integrated solution, and it’s certainly enough to handle browser-based gaming and doodling in Photoshop.

We test each laptop and tablet’s battery life by playing a locally stored 720p video file (the open-source Blender movie Tears of Steel) with display brightness at 50% and audio volume at 100%. We make sure the battery is fully charged before the test, with Wi-Fi and keyboard backlighting turned off.

To gauge display performance, we also use a Datacolor SpyderX Elite monitor calibration sensor and its Windows software to measure a laptop screen’s color saturation—what percentage of the sRGB, Adobe RGB, and DCI-P3 color gamuts or palettes the display can show—and its 50% and peak brightness in nits (candelas per square meter).

Although the competitors last longer, LG’s 18 hours off the plug is nothing short of commendable. Its display also stands out, delivering near-complete coverage of our tested color gamut ranges and an excellent 411-nit peak brightness, ideal for an OLED panel.