thought of another silly question as i'm reading reviews. even though the LG would definitely throttle and be nowhere as powerful as a gaming computer to convert videos, woudlnt it just mean it takes longer to convert a video, not that it wont do it? even now with my g75, if i have any video converter going and then pytivo transfering to my tivo and then 30 tabs open on 2 browsers, i have lags on something like even playing words with friends. in the end i wouldnt care if the lg took even 2x as long to transfer or convert vids, just that it did it without freezing my machine or slowing it down.
here's the excerpt from an article on the 2020 model i read that just made me think of this question: Thanks to the Intel Core i7-1065G7 CPU and 16GB of RAM, the Gram 17 had no problem loading up 30 separate Google Chrome tabs (including 10 YouTube tabs, playing music videos simultaneously). So I opened more YouTube tabs, a few Facebook videos, and then Spotify. 15 YouTube tabs (playing 1080p videos at once), five Facebook tabs (playing CNN news clips simultaneously), and one Spotify playlist later: still no lag. Impressive.The Gram 17 was no champion in our Handbrake video transcoding test, either, but that’s typical of 10th-Gen Ice Lake CPUs. It took 23 minutes and 59 seconds to convert a 4K video to 1080p resolution, while the previous model took 19:18. The XPS 17 (8:41) and MacBook Pro (8:00) performed this task even faster; the average premium laptop takes 18:39.
Not every benchmark test was a bummer. The Gram 17's speedy 512GB M.2 PCIe SSD took just 5 seconds to duplicate 5GB of multimedia files � a transfer rate of 1,128.4 megabytes per second. This actually outpaces the MacBook Pro (1,017.9 MBps), XPS 17 (620.6 MBps), and Surface Laptop 3 (282.7 MBps); the category average is 683.8 MBps.