LG UltraPC 17 review: a viable midrange creators' machine | Digital Trends

LG UltraPC 17 MSRP $1,600.00 Score Details DT Recommended Product “The LG UltraPC 17 is plenty fast for its target audience and price, despite some obvious outdated design choices.” Pros Cons The largest mainstream laptops you can buy today are 17-inch behemoths that offer huge displays and matching chassis. Usually, these machines are also more powerful, particularly among premium laptops, with faster CPUs and discrete GPUs that make them good for creative work.

A large laptop with a teeny-tiny touchpad It’s highly unusual for me to start a review by mentioning a laptop’s touchpad, but the UltraPC 17’s version is downright comical. It’s a tiny thing sitting there like a small island in a sea of palm rest and, jokes aside, it’s hard to use. My fingers constantly slammed on the palm rest while I was reviewing the laptop, with my fingertips expecting touchpad buttons where there were none. It was an OK touchpad otherwise, but I never did get past the size.

In terms of its construction, the all-aluminum UltraPC 17 has more flexing in its lid and keyboard deck than the sturdier XPS 17. The lid, in particular, gives in to minor force and shows some LCD distortion. The hinge is smooth, and the chassis base is heavy enough that it’s no surprise the lid opens with one hand. I’d rate the UltraPC 17 as less rigid than I expect in a $1,600 laptop.

The most pertinent test for creators is the Pugetbench Premiere Pro benchmark that runs a live version of Adobe’s Premiere Pro video-editing application. Here, the UltraPC 17 did well enough to make it useful for less demanding creative workflows, but it fell behind the rest of our comparison group. Note that the LG is less expensive than the other laptops, quite a bit so in some cases like the MSI Creator Z17 that’s $3,00o or more.

According to my colorimeter, the display was plenty bright and offered excellent contrast for an IPS display. The color gamut was just wide enough for creative work, while its accuracy was good but not excellent. Like its performance, the UltraPC 17’s display quality is suitable for less demanding creators but not as good as some others.

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