LG may be planning to shut down its ailing smartphone business but the brand is still a leading name in other aspect, one of which is the display segment. The Korean brand has just announced a new laptop packing its OBM display in the home market. The laptop is dubbed LG Ultra Gear 17 and it is an high-performance product. 
The Ultra Gear 17 sports a massive 17-inch WQXGA display which is an LCD panel with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels. The size of the display provides vivid and clear picture quality. The laptop also packs a 11th Gen Intel Core i5 processor paired with 8GB of DDR4 3200MHz memory. There is equally 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD onboard. Both the RAM and memory can be upgraded by users if they want, using expansion slots..
Further, the Ultra Gear 17 features an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650Ti GPU inside. The graphics card provides a rapid and comfortable environment when running video work or games.
Despite the huge display size, the new LG laptop isn’t very bulky as it weighs 1.95kg. This is despite packing an 80Whr battery cell. Talking of the battery, LG touts it as capable of providing long battery life. The laptop comes with a ‘dual power cooling system’ that quickly cools internal heat with two coolers and can stably run high-end programs. 
There ae also several ports onboard the laptop including three USB 3.1 ports, a USB 4 port which also supports USB-PD, 1 HDMI port, and a DC-in for power.
As for the pricing and availability, LG Ultra Gear 17 is available for purchase in South Korea and is priced at 2.24 million won (~$ 1,986).
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