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It's nice and light, but it will throttle. It can't reach the turbo frequencies without overheating. The internal graphics performance is pretty poor too, so don't expect much. It does work well for basic tasks, so if you just want a light PC for tasks that don't require a GPU, it's a good PC.
Costco price is $100 less than this; 699 in the coupon booklet. Starts next week.
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How does that apply here - both Buydig and Costco offering same 12th gen 1260 i7 processors for this laptop. Neither is 11th gen. In this case would the faster RAM be worth extra money?
How does that apply here - both Buydig and Costco offering same 12th gen 1260 i7 processors for this laptop. Neither is 11th gen. In this case would the faster RAM be worth extra money?
Oh, yes, 17-inch one was 11th Gen. May apologies. Yes, DDR5 would be faster but not sure if its $100 faster
I checked out LG Gram laptops at Costco (both 14" and 17"). They are insanely light and look very well built. Amazing laptops for the money though its NOT for gamers. Get something with dedicated GPU for that. Otherwise this is great for web browsing or watching movies or even as a workstation for work.
No hate but this is trash with that 2 gen old CPU and 350 nits screen
you meant 17" which has tiger lake. But its definitely not trash and 350 nits high resolution screen is way better than most laptop deals unless its uber expensive laptops.
14" has 12th gen which is still the latest as LG Gram with 13th gen is still not available.
One difference I see is Costco's has 16GB LPDD4 4266MHz RAM whereas Buydig's has 16GB 5200MHz LPDDR5. Faster RAM worth the $100?
Back in Dec I bought both the Costco and regular versions at the same prices being discussed here and ended up keeping the regular one (though part of it was I had intended to return both, since I didn't /really/ need these machines, but the BuyDig rep offered like a ~10% partial refund, which I took them up on). Aside from the DDR4 vs DDR5 RAM, there are a few other small differences.
The keyboard legends &c seem to be from last year's model. These look more ostentatious and I don't particularly like it, but is not a very big deal.
The power button has a fingerprint sensor built-in to it, again like last year's model. It worked alright, but be sure to try to register same finger a few times. The flipside of the inclusion of the fingerprint sensor, meanwhile, is
Webcam is only 720p and significantly worse than the one that comes with the regular model, which also has a wider field of view. It also has an IR camera and Windows Hello facial recognition, though you really need to be the exact distance away it expects and can't be too poorly-lit, or it won't work.
Some of the drivers (specifically, the VGA driver, I don't quite remember about the other ones) and firmware on the Costco-specific model are actually newer than have been released for the regular one.
BuyDig's stuff, if you were buying it a couple of months ago, like I did, had been sitting on a shelf for a few months so there was some wear on the battery by the time I actually got to use it (like 3-4%). My guess is this time around this is a restock though.
I ran performancetest and actually managed to get higher scores with the Costco model despite the slower RAM, so it may be that its' cooling solution is more robust somehow?
At the end I'm pretty happy with the model I ended up keeping and which I've been using for the past few months. Specifically I really appreciate the world's-better webcam on the regular model, but they're both decent and very similar machines.
Back in Dec I bought both the Costco and regular versions at the same prices being discussed here and ended up keeping the regular one (though part of it was I had intended to return both, since I didn't /really/ need these machines, but the BuyDig rep offered like a ~10% partial refund, which I took them up on). Aside from the DDR4 vs DDR5 RAM, there are a few other small differences.
The keyboard legends &c seem to be from last year's model. These look more ostentatious and I don't particularly like it, but is not a very big deal.
The power button has a fingerprint sensor built-in to it, again like last year's model. It worked alright, but be sure to try to register same finger a few times. The flipside of the inclusion of the fingerprint sensor, meanwhile, is
Webcam is only 720p and significantly worse than the one that comes with the regular model, which also has a wider field of view. It also has an IR camera and Windows Hello facial recognition, though you really need to be the exact distance away it expects and can't be too poorly-lit, or it won't work.
Some of the drivers (specifically, the VGA driver, I don't quite remember about the other ones) and firmware on the Costco-specific model are actually newer than have been released for the regular one.
BuyDig's stuff, if you were buying it a couple of months ago, like I did, had been sitting on a shelf for a few months so there was some wear on the battery by the time I actually got to use it (like 3-4%). My guess is this time around this is a restock though.
I ran performancetest and actually managed to get higher scores with the Costco model despite the slower RAM, so it may be that its' cooling solution is more robust somehow?
At the end I'm pretty happy with the model I ended up keeping and which I've been using for the past few months. Specifically I really appreciate the world's-better webcam on the regular model, but they're both decent and very similar machines.
Can you comment on the battery life? We bought a Lenovo from Costco a few months ago. Overall very happy with it, but the battery life is just okay. Looking for another laptop for a college kid, and I'm assuming battery life might be pretty important for them, so we will probably avoid the Lenovo. TIA.
Can you comment on the battery life? We bought a Lenovo from Costco a few months ago. Overall very happy with it, but the battery life is just okay. Looking for another laptop for a college kid, and I'm assuming battery life might be pretty important for them, so we will probably avoid the Lenovo. TIA.
The battery in this machine is rated around 58Wh. It is a definite and obvious upgrade over my previous machine with a similarly-sized battery and 8th-gen i7, so I'm happy with it from that perspective, but relative to what else you might find on the market, I'm not sure how great it is. It won't be competitive with Apple Silicon for example.
Personally I haven't used it enough on the go to get a real feel for it, but I don't feel particularly tethered to the wall, which is kind of new for me.
All that said if they're a college kid, another consideration has got to be weight, and this basically takes the cake on that. Other than MSI, to my knowledge nobody is making magnesium alloy laptops that weight 2.2lbs. (This also makes the complaints in this thread about gaming incredibly silly, to say nothing of the erroneous claims that this has an 11th gen rather than 12th gen chip). Other than that, I have very little experience with LG support, but their website doesn't inspire much confidence. This is a mixed bag, but still for the specs and price is very difficult to beat.
No hate but this is trash with that 2 gen old CPU and 350 nits screen
Yep with Intel 13th Gen out and the Outstanding AMD 7000 series poised to destroy both the Intel 12 and 13th Gen CPUs on performance and sipping less power everything else should drop drastically to remain viable.
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Correction. $699 at Costco starting March 8.
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14" has 12th gen which is still the latest as LG Gram with 13th gen is still not available.
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"No hate" "this is trash"… pick one
- The keyboard legends &c seem to be from last year's model. These look more ostentatious and I don't particularly like it, but is not a very big deal.
- The power button has a fingerprint sensor built-in to it, again like last year's model. It worked alright, but be sure to try to register same finger a few times. The flipside of the inclusion of the fingerprint sensor, meanwhile, is
- Webcam is only 720p and significantly worse than the one that comes with the regular model, which also has a wider field of view. It also has an IR camera and Windows Hello facial recognition, though you really need to be the exact distance away it expects and can't be too poorly-lit, or it won't work.
- Some of the drivers (specifically, the VGA driver, I don't quite remember about the other ones) and firmware on the Costco-specific model are actually newer than have been released for the regular one.
- BuyDig's stuff, if you were buying it a couple of months ago, like I did, had been sitting on a shelf for a few months so there was some wear on the battery by the time I actually got to use it (like 3-4%). My guess is this time around this is a restock though.
- I ran performancetest and actually managed to get higher scores with the Costco model despite the slower RAM, so it may be that its' cooling solution is more robust somehow?
At the end I'm pretty happy with the model I ended up keeping and which I've been using for the past few months. Specifically I really appreciate the world's-better webcam on the regular model, but they're both decent and very similar machines.- The keyboard legends &c seem to be from last year's model. These look more ostentatious and I don't particularly like it, but is not a very big deal.
- The power button has a fingerprint sensor built-in to it, again like last year's model. It worked alright, but be sure to try to register same finger a few times. The flipside of the inclusion of the fingerprint sensor, meanwhile, is
- Webcam is only 720p and significantly worse than the one that comes with the regular model, which also has a wider field of view. It also has an IR camera and Windows Hello facial recognition, though you really need to be the exact distance away it expects and can't be too poorly-lit, or it won't work.
- Some of the drivers (specifically, the VGA driver, I don't quite remember about the other ones) and firmware on the Costco-specific model are actually newer than have been released for the regular one.
- BuyDig's stuff, if you were buying it a couple of months ago, like I did, had been sitting on a shelf for a few months so there was some wear on the battery by the time I actually got to use it (like 3-4%). My guess is this time around this is a restock though.
- I ran performancetest and actually managed to get higher scores with the Costco model despite the slower RAM, so it may be that its' cooling solution is more robust somehow?
At the end I'm pretty happy with the model I ended up keeping and which I've been using for the past few months. Specifically I really appreciate the world's-better webcam on the regular model, but they're both decent and very similar machines.Can you comment on the battery life? We bought a Lenovo from Costco a few months ago. Overall very happy with it, but the battery life is just okay. Looking for another laptop for a college kid, and I'm assuming battery life might be pretty important for them, so we will probably avoid the Lenovo. TIA.
Here's a benchmark I found, fwiw, that has it lasting a fairly long time:
https://www.notebookche
Personally I haven't used it enough on the go to get a real feel for it, but I don't feel particularly tethered to the wall, which is kind of new for me.
All that said if they're a college kid, another consideration has got to be weight, and this basically takes the cake on that. Other than MSI, to my knowledge nobody is making magnesium alloy laptops that weight 2.2lbs. (This also makes the complaints in this thread about gaming incredibly silly, to say nothing of the erroneous claims that this has an 11th gen rather than 12th gen chip). Other than that, I have very little experience with LG support, but their website doesn't inspire much confidence. This is a mixed bag, but still for the specs and price is very difficult to beat.
Yep with Intel 13th Gen out and the Outstanding AMD 7000 series poised to destroy both the Intel 12 and 13th Gen CPUs on performance and sipping less power everything else should drop drastically to remain viable.
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