LG XNOTE P300 - M1330's fiercest rival?

Sorry if this should be in the LG forum. I think it's also appropriate here because I was really planning to get the M1330 next year, when all of a sudden, this laptop shows up.



According to Notebook Review, these are the specs:

LG has introduced its latest notebook, the 13.3-inch LG XNOTE P300. It features a WXGA LED-backlit display and is powered by a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 processor. Graphics power comes from an Nvidia 8600M-GS (other models available with an 8400M-GS) with 256MB of VRAM. Other features include a built-in 1.3-megapixel camera, WWAN, HDMI, and a 1.6 kg weight. The price? About 1900 EUR.

Any comments? Violent reactions??

I don't like the top very much, and it doesn't have a fingerprint scanner. Also, it doesn't have the touch buttons that the M1330 does above the keyboard.

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Edit: Another post list these specs...

13.3" LED Backlit display (1280x800)
Core 2 Duo CPU T7700
2GB Ram
250GB HD
Geforce 8600M (256 MB of VRAM)
Intel 4965AGN WI-FI
WWAN
HDMI
Weighs in at roughly 1.6kg







*Girl in orange not included

 

definitely very nice specs... and compares well with the M1330

 

got a link to where we can buy one??

 

It has certainly made me think twice about my intended purchase when I heard about it. If build quality surpasses that of the M1330, I would happily take the hit in the aesthetic stakes for a more robust, more capable alternative.

 

Where would these sell?

 

After a bit of reading around it turns out that they wont be launched until some time in 2008 (no official date), and from experience, the east will get them first, then a few months later they will come to our shores! So I say no earlier than Spring/Summer 2008!

They will retail for about $2,800 in South Korea (prob about £2000 or more in the UK), but I dont know if thats for the higher spec one with the 8600M GS or the lower spec 8400M GS?? I'm assuming its for the higher spec one.

And I dont like the look of this lid...

 

It costs easily $1000 more than a well equipped M1330. The only similarity is the size.

 

Hold that thought. The OP just added the image of the front/lid design. I take my 'aesthetic' comment back, that's pretty sleek. I like it. It's not actually as bland as I had originally presumed.

 

Very true! Cos it will actually be built to last...unlike the M1330!

And I actually do like the look of it with the black lid! But not the brown one!

And I wonder how much I have to pay to include the girl in orange??

 

"*Girl in orange not included"

Then you just removed my incentive of buying this computer.

 

The girl in orange is my wife.. Stick to the laptop gentlemen..

 

are you actually being serious? or are you just winding us up?

 

Of course he's kidding. She's my wife actually.

 

quit lusting over my wife, and start commenting about the M1330 vs the XNOTE P300..

 

ok...M1330 = cheap crap, XNOTE P300 = ?? cos its not out yet...

 

The only big differences between the two are the processor and the graphics accelerator. Aside from these two, the M1330 is still better-looking, offers touch-sensitive buttons, a remote controller, and a fingerprint scanner.

I wonder how screen quality compares..

 

The m1330 wins hands down. I don't like the looks of LG at all.

 

Overall, the M1330 offers more than P300.

 

well looks like its quite a bit lighter and thinner than the M1330 and provides better graphics... what price and where will it sell though?

 

I wonder why Dell didn't make it lighter when they could have been able to do so.

 

LG build quality is superior

 

Cos it would make it a fair bit more expensive...

 

Hmm...design looks VERY similar to the m1330 =P

 

m1330 > XNOTE P300

For looks and the fact that the m1330 wasn't meant to have "great" graphics.

LG is trying to hard...they don't get the premise of the m1330.

 

I think the LG is way better after combing through the korean site. the p300-up77k has gigabit lan, turbo memory, less weight, more power.

Only thing left up in the air atm is battery life. I presume this laptop will have pretty bad battery life but for my own personal use I don't need more then an hour worth of battery, if I know I will use more then hour I will plug into wall.

 

and since when is "trying to hard" even possible in the electronics industry?

There's no such thing! The LG is a superior product than the Dell! And if money was no object, I would pick the LG ANY day!

And with all the extra gadgets & less weight I'm sure that you and everyone else would too (if money was no object)!

 

no reason to think battery life will be bad...

 

where does LG sell laptops though? as in is it direct only?

 

why are there so many comments bashing the m1330? is the build quality that bad?

 

what about the macbook?

 

boooooooooo!!

 

hahaha!! boooo macbook!

 

holy crap. i just SAW one @ my local futureshop store in CAnada..
WTf.. never knew they were released..
specs: T8300 w/ 8600GS 256mb!! for $1700!

only drawback to this baby is.. no optical drive.. they include a external one though..
it also includes the finger-sensitive recognition

 

I'm sure the battery life will greatly suffer from that. Unless they can toggle between the video cards.

 

I just picked up the 1330 a week ago and these new LGs are definately 1330 killers. Check it out! Dell needs to fix their prices and fast!

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10098992&catid=

R.I.P. m1330

 

I don't like LG, their service is not good ... and hard to find replacement part

 

I'm curious how they solved the power issue to get a 256MB graphics card. I was debating between the 1330 and 1530 for weeks because I wanted more powerful graphics, but in a lightweight system. (1530 is 2lbs heavier)

I was told by Dell that the power supply is the issue, the 1330's power supply could only power a 128MB GPU, so the 1330 would never be getting a 256MB GPU. He also told me that most of the extra weight in the 1530 was due to the larger power supply(which could run the Nvdia 8600), as it is only 2in bigger yet weighs 2lbs heavier.

Thoughts?

P.S. Frankly I doubt that the numbers for the LG are real. How can this thing weight 1/2lb lighter than the 1330 when it is thicker and has more packed into it?

 

I only hope that after the P300 and the Macbook Air, we aren't going to see the internal optical drive lost for good in the 13.3" form factor.

It is I think a premature move to drop such hardware when downloads are still plagued with DRM and over-zealous compression; and ISP's and consumers struggle with their bandwidth to support the move to downloads alone. An ultraportable should be designed to be feature packed and portable, not portable at the cost of its ability.

I cannot regard either of the aforementioned notebooks as true 'ultra-portables' when you have to carry half of it seperately. What's ultra-portable about that?!

If the M1330's next revison can include a discrete, slot loading Blu-Ray reader/writer to complement that HDMI port (even if that doesn't make it taggable with the 'wafer thin'/'feather weight' marketing hyperbole) I think the consumer and Dell wins in the long run.

Optical discs are still too useful to abandon for the sake of a slogan.

 

Agreed. The lack of an integrated optical drive makes this useless for me.

 

This is a pity. I think m1330 is superior to P300 but I would buy 8600GS option if they offer it. If they would also include the same X300 ThinkPad panel I'd buy it.

If you speak Korean you can buy it in ebay Korea: http://search.auction.co.kr/search/...%C7%D5%B0%CB%BB%F6&txtKeyword=lg+p300&x=0&y=0

 

I'll second, third and fourth that sentiment.

 

I don't think the the XPS M1330 will ever have a Blue Ray drive -you need an 8600 class (or faster) GPU to decode the data from a Blue Ray disk...

 

say whaaaa??

 

its already out in NA.. at least in Canada.

 

Nice photo. Is that from LG's marketing department? I'll believe the weight when someone does an independent review.
Although the loss of the optical drive does make 1.6kg at least potentially feasible.

 

No you don't. Go look up info on the Centrino 2 platform and you will see that one of the versions of Intel's X4500 is enough for blu-ray movies. Since Blu-Ray has mostly won the war, by next year many laptops will have blu-ray drives. And also in the XPS M1330 manual it mentions a blu-ray drive.

 

Agreed. Any 13.3 notebook/laptop without an interal optical drive is useless for my needs.

-Funk

 

I have a M1330, luving it, but srsly, how often do u use ur optical drive??
the only times I used it is when i was formatting.

 

Me too, i rarely use optical drive except when i need to reinstall windows.
Wifi, USB Flash and External HDD rule...!

 

LOL you make me laugh. by the way that picture is from an independent review. www.notegear.com

so start believing