LG P310 - 13" - 9600GT 512mb ddr3

Protip:

This thing has been postponed for so long now.
Nobody here has it!

And i doubt they will have it this still this year.....

 

guys you know any reviews??? jeez whats taking so long

 

This laptop appears to be as rare as silicon gold.
I'm still waiting for mine to be delivered from notebook.de with a UK keyboard. However, correspondance was been somewhat lacking when I try to wring delivery dates from notebook.de.

 

OMG ! JUST GET IT ALREADY!

The reason why they can't deliver it is because THIS LG P310 HAS HARDWARE ISSUES.


And i guess it is heat-problem/fan-cooling problem.

No wonder, lol a 9600GT in such a small frame.

Only LG would get this idea? Other producers are stupid?
I doubt!
They have reasons. And these reasons are most probably related to LG not being able to deliver it

 

no LG WILL deliver some on they put a 8600m gs in there notebook when no one though it was possible so i have full faith in them........ my question is how downclocked will this thing be? According to some stuff i read the last p300 wasnt overclockable...

 

just saw on cyberport.de that the release date have been pushed forward to 4th of December. Spec's look the same though.

 

Hello, I'm new here and I got good news .

I'm from Portugal and I've just bought this amazing laptop today!

It doesn't have the stripes but it IS the P310-S.CP20P

I'll give more details later

 

.. that sounds good. I'm looking forward to hear the details.

 

first of all i hate vista.... its such a lame OS omfg...... im having huge difficulties enabling wifi :|:|:| I dont know why!! :|

It just makes me feel like formating and installing XP :|

 

The P310 should come with both OS, Vista preinstalled and XP as Recovery available.

 

I smell a troll.

 

Show us your first review

Heat generation, loudness ?

 

Well I had some problems connecting to the internet... but after using the rescue disks and re-installing drivers and such and configuring my wifi network, i finally managed to get it done!

The pc is barely hearable, and has a button to slow down the fan. Believe me, if I would make a video then you wouldn't hear it!

It has been working all day and the battery seems to last 3-4h in power saving mode.

Also it gets a vista experience level 5.3, with a score of 5.9 of allmost every aspect except the HDD speed (lol) in which it gets 5.3 :s....

What programs should I run to test it and make a decent review?

Also, the heat is almost none

 

run 3dmark that is what most of these guys here would want to see

 

I think the most interesting data is:
-3DMark06
-battery runtime using Powersaving, doing nothing, min display brightness
-battery runtime using Batteryeater, using average display brightness
-subjectiv opinion about display readability outdoors using max display brightness

 

3DMark '06 with external display so you get the result with 1280x1024 resolution, pref. with stock drivers and with www.laptopvideo2go.com drivers separately. If you could get heat and noise readings while running 3DMark that would be nice. Looking forward to hear more as well!

 

And try and put 3Dmark looping for 1-2h (go watch a move meen wile) and see if it gets hot and noisy.

 

well 3dmark scores are gonna be the same with other 9600m gt notebooks (~ close to 6000), that's not really news. how hot and loud it gets running that would be more interesting.

Also, it would be wonderful if you could take some pictures!

 

There are rumours around, that the 9600m GT in th P310 is bit downclocked because of the heat, also some other components have (some) impact on the result, so this is not for sure.

 

I agree.
The power is clear. 9600M GT and a T9600 has a lot of 15" notebooks.

Hope i can order it this week too

You can readout the clock from the videocard with for example Everest.

 

maybe he can just post the clock readings using http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

 

I emailed LG Portugal about a month ago asking for info on the p310 and they said they had no idea what I was talking about...

aesgan, where did you buy the laptop? Was it at a store or did you order it online?

It seems the Portuguese model is the same as the German 'Tarsia' except it has a T9400 instead of the P9500, which should mean shorter battery life and slightly more heat, but equal performance, right? It might also mean that the P9500 is the reason why the p310 has been delayed so much - maybe there's a lack of those processors, like what happened with the Atom?

 

troll-alert , troll-alert

 

He's not trolling. The laptop is for sale here for example: http://webservinfor.com/php/product_info.php?cPath=41&products_id=1810
and it says for "immediate delivery". I think aesgan really has a p310 (lucky bast*rd ).

 

Lol im not trolling!

I've written a basic review in Portuguese in another forum, ill be translating it now so i can post it here.

Here's a pic if u dont believe me
ARGH I cant post the images cause i dont have 15 posts..
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and the P310 logo, bear in mind the plastic protection, i havent taken it off yet.
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Expect some more info soon
Also I bought it from eXnet.pt its a store ran by some friends of mine. I bought it for 1350€, ordered it on monday, was in store on tuesday, couldnt go there that day but went to pick it up in store on wednesday.
I don't think they send internationally though

EDIT: I ran 3dmark06 and got 5757 marks
Also GPU-Z gives me this:
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500mhz/800mhz - no downclock

 

5800 3d mark?!??!WOW!!!! Thats crazy!! this notebook is the real deal man shoot that means this thing could be overclocked pass 7,000! this is a heck of an achievement congrats aesgan! i would love to see a review if you'd like to do you think heat is a problem with this notebook?

 

i'm configuring some stuff in my home wifi so i couldnt do a review regarding temperatures.

In my portuguese review I wrote that heat is not an issue, in my opinion. It is quiet and cool when surfing the web and even playing warcraft 3.

When I start Team Fortress 2, that's another thing lolol, the fan starts rotating faster, and heat starts pouring from the fan (im glad it responds like this and doesnt melt ).
Still I dont think its very hot, but to proove it ill play team fortress 2 while having GPUZ monitoring my temps, I'll then post with the average temp I get.

Cheers

PS: if anyone can read portuguese you can start reading my PT review here: www . techzonept.com/showthread.php?t=366614

 

Hmmmmmmmm i cant speak portuguese but i can probably help you translate that if you wanna put it on this site

 

ok just to let you know, ive monitored some temps during a TF2 game and I got maximum 52ºC! While not playing the usual temperature is 45ºC

 

wow was this at maximum settings(everything high?) Also have you tried to connect this via hdmi?

 

Ok so after playing a while I realized that I get breaks when trying to play TF2 in any of the settings, I'm guessing this may be cause of drivers or just vista sucking like allways....

Anyway the temperature goes up to around 55ºC when playing as Heavy in a 32 populated game, with some minor breaks, but when I return to Windows the temperature drops almost suddenly to 45ºC again .

I've tried connecting via HDMI and it worked perfectly, I havent played via HDMI but i will try it tomorrow.

Cheers

 

sure id like you to connect via hdmi to the tv to see if you can do 1920 x 1080 on the screen with this cards settings set to high, you're working really hard bro, thanks in advance!

 

does it have a plastic cover or brushed aluminum?

 

Plastic.

http://translate.google.com/transla...hread.php?t=366614&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=pt&tl=en works wonders Great pictures, thanks aesgan!

 

Awesome, who do I have to kill to get one in the US?

 

And it comes with a XP disc? Can you downgrade it?

Another question: is it easy to change the hard disk?

Thanks.

 

thanks aesgan and sorry for the doubt^^
but with the pics you have proven it.

how is the manufacture? it's a pity that they used plastic....also it is not the cheapest notebook.
Is the frame rock-solid?

And how is the screen-brightness?

Can you use it under sunlight, outdoor?

thanks

 

For Europeans costumers, is the Lg guarantee valid through all Europe?¿If I buy it in Germany, Will it be covered in Spain?

 

I have youst asked the same question to LG here in Sweden.
Haven't goten any replay yet.

 

agree with EAPOCS, too bad they decided to use plastic. It does nothing but make such a good notebook look cheap.
one more question; does it attract fingerprints?

 

well ofc. it does, atleast the glossy parts.

the S510 has no glossy at all :/

would have loved it if they had integrated some special features like LED-keyboard.

 

Im assuming thats 5725 1280 by 800 in 3D06. Thats why its so high.

 

May I have a HWMonitor screenshot, taken while playing a game or after running 3dmark06? GPU temps under load are important to know.

 

sorry guys i didnt have time today to make any more benchmarks.

The cover is in plastic (black), and it does attract fingerprints... Actually I wanted the striped one just to mark my "territory" and make sure to everyone that I had a "special" notebook .

Without the stripes it looks normal, though when I give it to someone to lift up they all get amazed!

I've played TF2 with High settings and it does get sloppy mostly in heavy populated servers. I've tested with GPU-Z the temps and it never got higher than 58ºC (it was like a peak).

I'll check HWmonitor tomorrow (its late here).

Regarding the monitor, i think its quite bright, then again my laptop uses a 8800GTS 512 with Quad core Q6600 and a Samsung 940BW with not so high brightness. I think my laptop is a lot brighter than my desktop monitor.
When its off its like a mirror but when its on it reflects some lights but nothing too much.

Also it takes around 1minute to boot to the vista sign in screen, dunno if you wanted this info or not .

And last but not least, In the bottom side there is nothing but the battery slot, so I dont know about removing the HDD. What I do know is that on the bottom there is a screw with a keyboard image and an arrow, which makes me think that to change something inside I will have to remove the keyboard (therefore the access is via the top).

I dont have many games I could test but I will install UNREAL TOURNAMENT 3 tomorrow and check out how high I can put my graphics .

Cheers

 

Is teh korean model the only one with stripes? I thing I prefer this one,the only bad point is it comes with "only" 3gb of ram. How much for another 2gb module?

 

Does it come with 64-bit Vista? If not, the 4th gig won't be used anyway. If it ships with 3gb, I'm guessing it's 32-bit.

 

Thank you very much, Aesgan. Do you know if it is possible to downgrade to XP Professional?

 

Delivery date in Germany is delayed unother two weeks: 12.12.2008

look here

 

I don't really know, but with 3gb will it run in dual channel? How much is for 2gb ddr3?