Lighter than a MacBook Air
Apple's 11-inch MacBook Air weighs 2.38 pounds while the 13-inch model weighs 2.96 pounds. Both are incredibly light for a laptop, though not as light as LG's new Gram notebook.
Despite having the biggest screen of the bunch at 14 inches (there's also a 13-inch model), the Gram barely budges the scale at just 2.16 pounds. That has the current generation MacBook Air models beat, and lest there be any doubt, those are the systems LG is declaring war against (LG specifically mentions the MacBook Air in its press release).
However, the MacBook Air is a little bit skinnier at its most narrow point -- the 13-inch model measures 12.8 (W) x 0.11-0.68 (H) x 8.94 (D) inches, versus the LG Gram's 12.8 (W) x 0.5 (H) x 8.9 (D) profile. Measurements aside, they look similar in a side-by-side comparison, as you can see in photo The Verge took of the two laptops.
The Gram's body is made of carbon-lithium and carbon-magnesium, the same materials found in spacecraft and race cars. According to LG, this allows the Gram to be both lightweight and "exceptionally strong."
Interestingly, LG opted to build its Gram line around Intel's Broadwell architecture, not Skylake. There are three models at present, the least expensive of which is the LG Gram 13. It runs $900 and features a 13.3-inch Full HD (1920x1080) IPS display, Intel Core i5-5200U processor, 8GB of DDR3L-1600 RAM, 128GB SSD, 1.3MP webcam, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, 10/100 LAN, two USB 3.0 ports, microSD card slot, HDMI output, and Windows 10.
There are also two LG Gram 14 models, one that runs $1,000 (same specs but with a physically larger display) and another that costs $1,400 (Intel Core i7-5500U processor and 256GB SSD).
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