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All the Korean stores that were posted are selling the P330.UE40K for the equivalent of ~$1220 USD. The i7 version of the P330 will be more expensive but the price for that isn't known right now.
Can contact someone LG to ask if the panel is ips? because many advertised(sites news) with IPS, and in the page lg not see any mention, this team is a great buy if you have ips, but if not, it loses much points
Hi guys! Its my first post on here and Im interested in this type of notebook, Im not great with internal specs and all that and forgive me for being a noob, but was is this particular model such a hot topic with over 35 pages and counting? what can I expect/do on it with the hardware inside that make it special from the other 13" or 14" LG notebooks?
Would say thats rather expensive for the units if the given prices are accurate there =s, would just go for a Vaio Z at that point. I thought from earlier sources it was going to be ~1200usd for the UE70k which would have been very reasonable.
Gaming is a factor in it, but a number of applications these days can also take advantage of a dedicated GPU for CUDA applications. Also, this is a very thin notebook for the overall performance, exceeding most other units on the market for what is crammed into such a thin and light package, that it appeals to everyone who does not want to go the macbook air route and find some of the other ultrabook offerings lacking for certain features.
+1 There are a number of business applications that require a dedicated GPU. Many of us have departed from the typical route of getting a standard business unit due to the desire to have portable power to undertake our work wherever we are. I rarely load a game onto my Acer 3820TG but use the GPU daily. It is the power and portability that also makes the LG look so attractive.
So you're considering this one Bronsky? I remember you being all hyped over the 3820tg and let down by the 3830tg. This computer here would patch up the one flaw of the 3820tg -- the screen. And this newer i7 version is probably as strong if not stronger than your overclocked last gen i5. I guess it would come down to how well this thing handles heat.
The 3830TG is a train wreck. As much as I love my 3820TG, at some point I will have to replace it. The LG is in contention. (I'm also keeping an eye on the Lenovo X2 Ivybridge refresh but will need an external GPU solution.) The cooling on the P310 was acceptable and, if the P330 has a dual fan cooling system, it should be more than adequate. I have yet to encounter anything that my Acer's cooling can't handle.
Yeah, I guess Ivy
will bring a couple options, I forgot about it for a second. I couldn't imagine anything having cooling as good as the 3820TG. But with smaller chips, will you actually need it?
Being a 13.3 inch, there will be limitations. Of what I've seen,
1. Dual core processor instead of quad core
2. Possibly a crippled GT 555M with 96 pipelines, instead of 144 (therefore being a fast GT 550M instead of a true GT 555M)
3. Non-removable battery
4. 5400RPM HDD vs 7200RPM HDD in laptops like the Y470
5. Optical drive (not much of an issue though)
Thats the prototype model. Of what I've seen of the production model, the battery is removable. It also comes with an external optical drive like the P300 and P310.
It has to be close now. They'd be nuts to release it beginning of next year with Ivy looming so close. I reckon they'll push to have it out by Christmas, and catch the present buying rush. Well I hope they do...
My bad. Yes USA, heck even Canada. There's always ways to get it from there, but a US release would be preferable. In any case even if it's released late for North America, it is just stupid to release such an awesome machine with "old" tech.
I think this laptop would be suited for people who are very tight on space, or are always travelling abroad. The price is a bit steep for an average university student like me, being $2000 vs $820 (what I paid for my Y470). The screen is definitely impressive if it is truly 1600*900. If it has mini pcie, you could hook up an external graphics card, like I did with a Radeon 5870, although the performance wouldn't be as good as a quad core with external gfx card and the total price might not be worth it.
Resolution is 1366 x 768. The i5 version is only $1200 if you want something cheaper (It has i5, only 4GB of ram and only a HDD rather than the SSD/HDD combo).
I don't think it has a pcie, though this is the wrong laptop if you want an external graphics card. It's if you want everything all in one small and light package.
Yeah neither machine is really amazingly powerful though, both having dual core processors etc.
I think the GT 555M in the Razor is a full fledged one vs. a most likely crippled 555M in this one (basically the same as a GT 550M if you overclocked it)
But the Razor won't do well with the full HD res and a GT 555M... If you actually used that resolution, most games would only run on medium I think, but this laptop at 1366*768 will run most things on high
I just saw a Korean review of the the smaller P220 with an IPS display and it looks pretty amazing. If the P330 is more the same I'll be getting which ever one I can get cheaper here in the states(pending neither have any weird color accuracy issues).
Dunno why everyone's requesting 1920x1080, I actually like the 1366x768 size. It's kind of impractical to have THAT high of resolution on this small of a laptop, for both reading and gaming purposes.
Btw, has anyone found any notion of it coming stateside...this is THE perfect dang laptop...
I heard it was supposed to be 900p, and, the 555M in the Razer Blade is the one with 96 shaders and GDDR5/128-bit bus, not the 144 shader GDDR3/192bit one in the M14x.
Not really. There is quite a noticeable performance difference according to notebookcheck.
"The performance is depending on the used version of the card (see above). The 3DMark 06 performance for example ranges from 8857 points (Lenovo Ideapad Y570) to 13000 points (MSI GX780R). The GT 555M in the Lenovo therefore is just a fast GT 550M. The average GT 555M (with 144 shaders) is positioned in the lower high end class and enables users to play demanding games in high settings at 1366x768."
The GT 555M with the GDDR5 is noticeably lower than the GT 555M with DDR3.
From my experiences, the GT 555M with GDDR5 performance-wise is exactly the same as my GT 550M with DDR3. The GT 555M with DDR3 performs noticeably better (almost 50% better from notebookcheck's benchmarks), but only comes in bigger laptops.
so how does So 96 shader GDDR5 128-bit bus 550m compare to a modestly overclocked 6550/5650? I read that the overclocked 6550 can beat 540m at stock... If that's the case, is the performance of this laptop going to be significantly better than the higher end 3820tg(with i5-480m or better) or the 3830tg?
The 96 shader GDDR5 555M is basically just a 550M if ever so slightly faster. A 550M I believe is around 10% faster than a 540M at stock.
If the 6550 overclocked just barely beats a 540M, the P330 would still be around 10% faster if it's using the worse version of the 555M (There's no confirmation of this one way or another, everyone's just assuming it because of the size of the laptop).
Hmmm, that does sound good. Here's to hoping that LG's figures are accurate. We won't know until we get some proper third party benchmarks done I guess.
I guess it would be nice to have a 1600*900. I checked the Korean LG website and so far they only listed 1366*768 (which I think is still ok for a 13.3"). You can always hook up an external at home too.
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