hey guys it's max we just got in the brand new 2021 14-inch redesigned lg
gram wow i'm gonna say this thing is super
lightweight my first time holding this and today we're gonna be
comparing it to the m1 macbook pro and we're not only gonna
compare your usual cpu and graphics performance we're gonna take a look at
the speakers the webcams and microphones we're gonna
pull out our thermal camera and see how hot and loud these two get
and test out real world performance and see which one of these
is the better buy let's start out with the exteriors and i have to say there
are a few things that i didn't really expect
first off the lg gram is quite a bit thicker
than the macbook pro especially at the back of it you guys can see that right
there the second thing is i mentioned that the
lg is very lightweight shockingly lightweight in the hands
but it feels quite cheap it is very i don't want to say flimsy but kind of
plasticky feeling at least you look at the lid look how much
movement we have here and everything just doesn't line up to the premium feel
and fit and finish of the macbook pro but of course
that is why it is so lightweight i mean there's a
pretty drastic difference between these two now i have to give lg props
that they actually added ports for this redesign how often do you see a
manufacturer do that typically they're getting rid of ports so
on the left hand side we have a full size hdmi we have two
thunderbolt 4 ports and we have a headphone jack which i prefer
on the left hand side and then flipping around we have
two fast usbs we have a micro sd card slot and then we have this little lock
so one extra port compared to last year of course our macbook pro
only has two thunderbolt ports on the left hand side
and only a headphone jack on the right hand side so the lg
definitely wins as far as ports both of
them do use usb type-c to charge so that's a great improvement for
lg i'm not a fan of the brick that's this two-way setup there's a lot more
cables to deal with compared to having a little power brick
with little prongs that flip out and both are about
60 to 65 watts now we do have a big difference in battery
life especially when you look at the rated battery life in real world which
i'll talk about in just a bit but for now let's go ahead and open these up i
love that the macbook opens up with just one hand as a nice evenly
balanced hinge let's try the lg and nice okay
i was actually not expecting that since it's so lightweight
good job lg taking a look at the inside i have to say that i really dig
this modern clean white look lg made the trackpad and keyboard bigger
it looks really nice but it feels plasticky even though it is a magnesium
alloy and it's just very flimsy i'm not used to that in these modern expensive
notebooks and you guys let me know down in the comments
what do you prefer a lighter weight laptop or one that's a lot
stronger and has a lot less flex now with that let's go ahead and hit the
power button here i'm going to start booting it up we do have a fingerprint
reader built into this power button just like on the macbook pro and let's
go ahead and test out the keyboard this has been improved
and wow okay that feels really nice it's a little bit springy but it also feels
soft it definitely feels good gives you a
good amount of feedback and the keys are a decent size magic keyboard
actually gives you a little bit more feedback uh but it takes a little bit
less pressure to press down both are actually very
good let's try the little track pad all right well
that's actually pretty easy to press even at the top and it's it is
using a diving board design so that's good uh but look how much flex
we get there in the chassis i don't know it just keeps bugging me
now the macbook pro trackpad is bigger and it is that magnetic trackpad
that just works so well and it feels so good
definitely is a winner in terms of trackpad all right we're set up i have a
ton to see about this display but first i want to cover the speakers
and finish off with the chassis because the lg doesn't have any speaker grills
like the macbook pro does for up firing speakers
and it is so lightweight that i'm curious what kind of speakers they put
into this machine now being on a desk right now this is the optimal scenario
for down firing speakers because they bounce up
so let's go ahead and compare these two put on a pair of headphones if you have
them and let's take a listen
all right guys let me know your thoughts down in the comment section below
i have to say that i was surprised with the lg it is quite a bit louder than i
expected a lot of windows laptops are quieter but it didn't really sound
good so technically it peaked one decibel louder than the macbook pro
but it sounds very flat if you're looking for a good bass
rich maids and nice highs you're not really gonna get it that's where the
macbook pro really stands out has a nice rich sound but if you're somebody that's
coming from a cheaper windows laptop that's quieter and sounds worse i think
most people would be happy it definitely gets the job done
but it doesn't sound great and now it's compared to the webcam and the
microphone quality this is the lg's 720p webcam and it has
dual front-facing microphones here so go ahead and let me know how this looks and
sounds and this is the webcam and microphone
quality of the m1 macbook pro so let me know down in the
comment section which one looks better to you and which
one sounded better and now let's talk about the displays first off
lg thank you for switching to a 16 by 10 aspect ratio
just like the macbook pro just like so many windows laptop manufacturers are
doing it is way better for a laptop of this
size now they do have a 14 inch display which
is what we want in the max and we have these nice slim bezels i'd
love to see slimmer bezels on the macbook pro
i'm not a fan of the matte gray plastic bezels it reminds me of cheap 300
laptops but at least they are slim now as far as resolutions
lg just gives you one display it's a 1920x1200 display
so i have 2.3 million pixels compared to 4.1 million pixels on the macbook pro
now i love this kind of 2.5 2.6 k resolution but it looks like
most windows manufacturers is either getting 1080p based screen
or a 4k one and the 4k kills your battery life now as far as brightness i
went ahead and adjusted that top camera so the screens aren't blown out i put
them all up to the max and i have to say that i'm impressed
with lg because it is almost as bright as the macbook pro which is at 500 nits
that is great for bright rooms and for outdoors
but with that said if you're looking at darker content we do have a pretty
massive difference in reflectivity and contrast the lg the contrast is much
lower as you guys can probably see from that camera
and it is much more reflective so i see my face almost like a mirror and looking
at this dark content where at the macbook even
though it's a glossy screen the reflections are minimized and we
have nice rich deep blacks and lastly color accuracy i read
that the lg supports dci p3 now unfortunately both of edge and chrome it
is not displaying the wider color gamut whereas the macbook pro does
so as far as color accuracy if you want to do photo editing video editing you
care about colors the macro pro is definitely the better way to go
and now finally let's get into performance we're going to start out
with the ssds both are 256 gigabyte models let's go ahead
and hit start all right so there we go
wow that is a fast read speed on the lg so as far as right
the macbook pro is leading by about 200 megabytes per second
but for read the lg is about 800 megabytes per second faster we're right
at 3 000 that is incredible now another
difference that we have here is that the lg gram it actually has an
additional m.2 slot so you can easily
add in another ssd without having to remove the one that comes with it so if
you need extra storage that is quick and easy to do with the
mac of course you're stuck with what you buy
you have to upgrade it right out of the gate and now let's compare our cpu
performance we are going to start out with geekbench 5.
now both of these are 8 gigabyte models and i have both linked down below
and i'm going to actually do a ram comparison between
a windows system and a mac with that unified
memory that gives you better optimization so if you guys want to see
that video we're going to do a real world stress
test with applications with web browsing it's going to be awesome
make sure you guys click that subscribe button down below and enable those
notifications now let's go ahead and get started
in our tiger lake intel processor it goes up to from 2.4 all the way up to
4.2 gigahertz whereas our m1 mac only hits 3.2
all right we have a result and we have a massive
difference so as far as single core the macro pro is about 26
27 faster it's a pretty big difference but multi-core it is about 60
faster than the lg now the lg we did set it to the best performance so it's not
supposed to be limited and you may have noticed that it is
actually plugged in whereas our macbook pro is unplugged on
battery power now what i'm really curious about
will lg maintain this performance or will it go down even more
when we unplug so let's go ahead and unplug this and we're going to run it
again all right we are almost done with the
test and bam we have our results and this is
interesting it looks like as far as single core score
we actually went up no actually nevermind we went down by a little bit
it's very close though a multiscore went up by a little bit and
i do have my settings set to maximum performance
so that is a very good thing even though performance isn't as good as the macbook
pro it does keep its performance without
tanking if you're on battery now what i am very curious about
is in cinebench when we're pushing these system to the max how will they perform
and another thing i have to mention is fan
and heat so far with everything we've done this thing has been
absolutely silent and most windows laptops when you open a program
or you do something basic the fans will kick up for a little bit then they'll
turn back down
so thermals so far look good but let's go ahead and close this
let's test out the graphics first and then we'll do our thermal test
and as far as compute performance in geekbench 5 you guys can see
we have a pretty significant difference we are looking at
14 700 compared to 21 600 it's about a 50
difference in performance that is massive and that is with the lg plugged
in now i also did run it unplugged and the performance went down
by just a little bit basically insignificant so once again
uh lg i don't know if they're being conservative with their wattages or what
but the performance is quite a bit low and now let's see how these compare
in terms of gaming we're using gfx bench this is scaled pretty well to real world
gaming and we have our scores here and wow we
have a massive difference 42 compared to 81.33
so basically twice the performance in terms of
gaming and as you guys may have seen in our previous videos
the macbook pros when you start to play games using metal the optimization
is really incredible if you guys didn't see that go ahead and check it out we'll
link it down below all right guys and now let's go ahead
and do our maximum performance test with cinebench it's going to max out all the
cores
and with that i have my thermal camera right here
so we're going to see how this performs in terms of temps
in terms of fan noise so let's go ahead and get a baseline
reading this is our new lg gram and it looks like 43 degrees is the
hottest point uh right over there at the back and
let's take a look at our m1 macbook wow 29 degrees you guys see the
color difference between 28 now's the hottest point
that's a big difference in temperatures crazy now i do have to commend the lg
for being quiet all these tests the graphics test we did
the cpu tests we did it has been silent which has been
really nice for a windows laptop but this is going to be the big test so
let's go ahead and get started so this is our 10 minute test where it's
going to keep running for 10 minutes making sure
the system heats up when we get our full results and i typically
like to use intel power gadget to see the cpu frequencies
and the temperatures in the wattage but it will not open for some reason so
we're just gonna have to go off of the performance
and our thermal camera all right guys it has been five minutes and so
far the lg is very quiet it's a little bit louder than the macbook pro
but i literally have to get that close to hear it which is wonderful if you
want a quiet machine let's pull out the thermal camera and
see what we get as far as temps looks like 48 49
definitely quite hot and still in that one spot
let's take a look at the m1 36 is our hardest spot
on the m1 so it's heating up but running much cooler than the lg
alright guys we are almost done and let's take another look at thermals we
have 47
on the lg and the mac is at 37 so we have a 10 degrees
celsius difference that's a massive difference and
interestingly the macbook pro is actually slightly
louder now compared to the lg i can't even hear it which is
really weird for windows laptop but our macbook pro
does run very cool as far as temperatures
i wonder if that means that the lg is gonna be really
weak as far as performance if it's running that quiet
so our timers are done right now we gotta finish up with the runs before we
get our score the mac just finished
we have a score of 7755
we're still waiting in the lg the macbook pro is really
cool right here it's barely warm the lg wow okay that spot that is burning hot
so this is gonna get interesting we're almost done and
we have our score let me know down in the comments pause for a second
what you think the score that it got i wanna hear your guys's opinions because
i was not expecting this and i know i say that a lot but i was
really not expecting this go ahead and let us know the score is 3
357. that is insane i thought it would at least hit 5 000
but that is so low and that is with the machine plugged in if we unplug it
i don't think it's going to get any better performance probably is going to
go down by just a little bit and i did the math
2.3 times faster for the m1 mac when we max out all the cores
that is just an incredible difference now it was quiet
you know i've given props for that but at this point i'd rather take much
louder fans
even screaming fans to get better performance than this so
let's go ahead and close cinebench and now let's get into some real world
performance i have lightroom classic opened up on both here
let's go ahead and switch between these 42 megapixel images
sit next right there the mac was a little faster that one is about the same
mac was a little faster mac was faster so as you guys could see so far the mac
does switch faster even though it's actually not optimized
for lightroom classic just yet and all of these raw images have a bunch of
corrections i'm going to grab all 50 and we are going to do an export test
both of these systems are completely maxed out
it looks like the lg's running at 2.55 about gigahertz it's actually lower than
i expected so it's not actually kicking up anywhere near that 4.2
and our mac is running at 3.2 gigahertz the m1 mac is almost done
and it's interesting that i can actually hear the fan right here from this
distance whereas the lg i can't so they are
very conservative with their wattages and their fan speeds
all right our lg is now finally finished it's silent but it ain't that fast the
macbook pro took 2 minutes and 39 seconds to export all 50 of these edited
raw images to jpeg the dell took four minutes
and 43 seconds yes that is no joke no lie
it is quite slow um it has i5 it has the latest intel
processor but it's just lg's seems like they're
very conservative and with that this program is optimized for intel x86
processors not for m1 max that is close to twice
as long when you need to be maxing out the cpu and of course
graphics wise there's an even bigger difference in terms of graphics so
that is a big disappointment with the lg uh
overall if we take a look at the value and prices
this thing is a hundred dollars less than the mac you can toss in your own
ssd um it has 256 gigs and 8 gigs of ram
it's lightweight has tons of ports so it looks like it's a fairly good value
it's quiet but then once you get into performance that's where it starts to
suffer so you guys let me know down below
what matters for you a lower price more flexibility a lightweight system a
larger display or the performance of the macbook pro
and which one would you choose you want to hear your guys's opinions now
i wanted to compare this to the m1 macbook air
that's even lower and even better value price wise
and of course um that is fanless so it's also going to be quiet
quieter than this one but also very quiet maybe lower performance than the
macbook pro so if you guys want to see that you guys
can click that circle above and then we will investigate as far as
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this has been max and i'll see you in the next video