Three Models Comprise LG gram Line of Laptops Making US Debut

Three models priced $899 to $1,399 comprise the LG gram series of laptops now making their U.S. debut through Microsoft brick-and-mortar stores and online through Microsoft and Amazon, the company said in a Monday announcement. The laptops are named gram “as a nod” to their “extremely light weight,” LG said. For example, the LG gram 14 “is among the lightest laptops in the 14-inch category, weighing only 2.16 pounds -- less than the MacBook Air,” the company said. Its body is made of carbon-lithium and carbon-magnesium, “the same materials found in spacecraft and race cars, giving the LG gram 14 an exceptionally strong rugged framework that stands up to everyday life while remaining lightweight,” it said. The LG gram 14 also is just a half-inch thick, it said. LG has had “laptop success in other markets,” so it’s bringing them to the U.S. for the first time in the gram series, David VanderWaal, LG Electronics USA vice president-marketing, said in a statement.