The LG Gram 14’s ‘all-day’ battery is based on a decade-old benchmark test

The latest iteration of LG’s ultra-thin Gram 14 laptop, announced earlier today at CES, came with a bold claim attached: between 21 and 24 hours of battery life on a single charge. It turns out, however, the claim is too good to be true.

As CNET pointed out earlier today, LG relied on a decade-old benchmark tool called MobileMark 2007 to claim that its 14-inch laptop can last for up to 23.6 hours. MobileMark 2007 has since been replaced by a more recent version, in 2014, that more accurately pegs the Gram 14’s battery performance at about 17 hours on a single charge. That information was hidden away in a South Korean press release posted online earlier today, a Google translation of which can be found here. LG did not immediately...

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