LG unveils the Gram Fold, its first foldable-screen laptop, weighing 2.76 lbs and arriving in South Korea on October 4 for ~$3,700 to rival Asus, Lenovo, and HP 全新筆電收購

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It seems to use the same LG Display panel as HP’s Spectre Fold.

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Lenovo launched the first foldable laptop in 2020, but the first real era of foldable PCs is only starting to unfold now. Today, LG became the latest OEM to announce a foldable-screen laptop, right after HP announced its first attempt, the Spectre Foldable PC, earlier this month.
LG only announced the Gram Fold in South Korea thus far. LG didn’t immediately respond when I asked if it has plans to release the machine in the US.
A Google translation of LG’s Korean announcement said the laptop is 9.4-mm (0.37-inches) thick when unfolded and used like a 17-inch tablet. Alternatively, the OLED PC can be folded in half to use like an approximately 12.2-inch laptop. In the latter form, a virtual keyboard can appear on the bottom screen, and you can dock a Bluetooth keyboard to the bottom screen or pair a keyboard with the system wirelessly. The screen has 1920×2560 pixels for a pixel density of 188.2 pixels per inch.
One draw of foldable PCs is supposed to be portability. The Gram Fold weighs 2.76 pounds (1,250g), which is even lighter than LG’s latest Gram clamshell laptop (2.9 pounds).
According to Android Authority, LG’s laptop will have an Intel Core i5-1335U, which has 8 Efficient cores (E-cores) at up to 3.4 GHz, two Performance cores (P-cores) at up to 4.6 GHz, 12 threads, and 12MB of cache. The PC is also supposed to have 16GB of RAM, a 512GB NVMe SSD, a 72 Wh battery, Wi-Fi 6E, and two USB-C ports. LG is claiming 99.5 percent DCI-P3 color coverage with the laptop.
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LG said the Gram Fold will release on October 4 for 4.99 million won (about $3,726).
Mass production
Although LG hasn’t confirmed its foldable PC in the US or other countries yet, it’s highly possible it will come out in the US. LG previously released groundbreaking products in South Korea before selling them in the US and beyond.
It’s also possible we’ll see similar designs from other laptop brands, as panel supplier LG Display announced today that it will start mass production of 17-inch foldable OLED laptop panels.
The foldable OLED is made with a tandem OLED structure. It uses two-stack OLED technology, adding “an extra organic emitting layer to deliver brighter screens while effectively dispersing energy across OLED components for optimal stability and longer lifespans,” LG Display’s announcement said.
LG Display first entered mass production of foldable (13.3-inch) laptop panels in 2020. However, foldable PCs didn’t immediately take off then, despite the panel being used in Lenovo’s 2020 ThinkPad X1 Fold.
Foldable PCs lacked the software support that Windows 11 now affords with its Snap windows layouts that make organizing windows across dual or folded screens more intuitive. The operating system proved reliable for handling dual-screen window layouts when I reviewed Lenovo’s Yoga Book 9i. The 2-in-1 laptop isn’t a foldable but, rather, has a second 13.3-inch OLED screen where you would expect its physical keyboard and touchpad to be.
Enlarge / Lenovo’s Yoga Book 9i dual-screen laptop.Scharon Harding

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Scharon is Ars Technica’s Senior Product Reviewer writing news, reviews, and analysis on consumer technology, including laptops, mechanical keyboards, and monitors. She’s based in Brooklyn.

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▲ ROG 推出的 EVA 聯名主機板被發現錯字。（圖／翻攝自華碩）

記者樓菀玲／綜合報導

好尷尬！最近有玩家發現華碩（全新筆電收購asus）與新世紀福音戰士 EVA 推出的聯名主機板印錯字，這次被玩家發現的錯字位於主機板散熱片邊緣，原本應該是印上「EVANGELION PRODUCTION MODEL-02」字樣，意外多了一個 N 變成「EVANGE”N”LION」，讓許多玩家直呼根本升值變限量版。

據了解，華碩這檔 ROG x EVANGELION 聯名陣容包含了主機板、顯示卡、散熱器、顯示卡支架等產品，發售時間點位於今年 8 月左右，過去以來一直沒有玩家發現主機板上的錯字，直到最近這幾天終於被注意到，引發許多玩家、粉絲之間的討論與話題。

這款被發現有錯字的款式為明日香 ROG Maximus Z790 Hero EVA-02 主機板，主機板左側散熱片邊緣印有「EVANGELION PRODUCTION MODEL-02」的字樣，其中的 EVANGELION 多了一個 N 變成 EVANGE”N”LION，而且無論是一開始的官方商品圖還是國內外開箱照片，全部都是多了一個 N 的錯字版本。

目前華碩尚未公開後續會如何處置這些印錯字的主機板，許多玩家對這次的「錯字」失誤反而更感興趣，原本就已經是限量販售的商品，如今加上印錯字更讓許多玩家覺得更有收藏價值，甚至還有玩家開玩笑：「如果買到沒錯字的肯定是盜版」。

@全新筆電收購asus_ROG EVANGENLION? (Maximus Z790) pic.twitter.com/9MSUunjxGu

11 月 17 日 18:50 更新

稍早之前華碩在自家官網更新了聲明，內容提到關於 ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO EVA-02 EDITION 主機板左側裝飾銘板上「Evangelion」一字拼寫錯誤事件，華碩承諾會將該產品的保固時間延長一年，還會提供正確的裝飾銘板讓玩家更換。

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