Haute Future

Two brands are shaping the future of hybrid work routines with laptops delivering a combination of style and performance

- JONATHAN HO

THE HYBRID WORK MODEL gives employees the option to work from home or the office rather than requiring them to work exclusively in one location or the other on a regular basis.

While this kind of arrangement offers numerous benefits to both employees and employers, the onus shifts to us, the consumer, because we are looking to make the best use of this hybridised living and working experience. This means that in terms of consumer electronics, the shift to hybrid work has led to increased demand for unexpected functionality to serve dual objectives in a stylish package: work and entertainment.

Thinner than the MacBook Air M2, LG's new OLED laptop, Gram Ultraslim is the company's thinnest yet with a depth of only 10.99 mm, beating out Apple's offering by a finger as one of the thinnest laptops ever made; comparatively, this device is about as thick as a smartphone when closed. Furthermore, the Gram Ultraslim also cements the brand's reputation for making some of the most ultra-portable laptops around with a weight of just 998 g.

Listed in corporate nomenclature as the 15Z9ORT, LG's Gram Ultraslim supplies impressive image quality and processing power despite its svelte form-factor, packing a 15.6-inch OLED display with Anti-glare Low Reflection coating and Intel's 13th Gen Raptor Lake chip with Performance-cores (P-cores). Designed to use less power than standard cores, P-cores provide higher performance than the standard cores in a processor with the ability to handle more complex tasks and processes more efficiently, leading to faster overall performance. These cores are also developed with enhanced multitasking, enabling you to handle multiple tasks - say, video-rendering in the background while photo-editing simultaneously.

LG Gram Style