my impression on the mighty S1

hi guy's
first of all thank you very much if it is'nt for you i would'nt buy this laptop

i manged to get this laptop with great offer 2200$ with hp printer,copier,fax,scanner +optical wireless mouse+2gb ram (for after market upgraed)

i recived the laptop 1 week ago

spec. are
core due 2.0
1gb ram (2x512) upgraded to 2gb
ati x1600 512mb
100gb hard drive
3 year warinty
win xp home


app. instaled:-

office 2003
gogle earth
skype
icq
kaspersky antivirus
windows defender
system mechanic
paltalk
winrar
real player
quiek player
acdsee
paintshop
photoshop
poser
3Dmax
maya

games:-

WOW
guild war


so i send it to my friend 5 day's ago and i called him today to see how's every thing going he told me that the laptop is very fast &working great without any problem's at all

but ofcorse there is nothing complete

here is the 2 cons:-

1- small touchpad

2- slow dard drive

i hope my impression help you

 

May I ask where you purchased this notebook from?

 

Uh... huh... Photoshop, Paintshop, Poser, 3ds Max and Maya alone would've costed many times the price of the notebook itself...

 

I guess the touchpad is a personal preference. I find it fine and of a suitable size. For the hard drive, its agreed that a 7200 RPM would better suit a notebook like the S1. I'll probably buy one aftermarket and swap it out myself.

 

I do believe your 3dmark score is the record for the x1600 ap27

why do you think this is?

 

Actually Stamar i think i saw another in the Asus W3J thread about ATi overclocking who has a score of 4887. That would be the highest
502-Core/504-memory was the max i could take it on normal cooling. ATi Tool started artifacting if i changed any higher.

EDIT: Yea it is. 3DMark06 as well

 

hi guys sorry for my late replay

laptop 1700$
2gb memory 300$
hp 4 in 1 200$

i bught it from the LG athurized dealer in saudia arabia

about the apps. my friend take them free from the company he works for

 

pleez

what about battry ??

 

the only bad thing i found in S1 is the location of the touchpad it should be a bit to the left so we wont touch it while typing its a bit annoying

 

The LG S1 comes with a 6-cell battery that will give you about 2 hours on normal use (max brightness...wifi on...music playing..). You could bump it up to around 2:45 if you use Notebook Hardware Control or something to underclock your processor and video card, and turn down the brightness.

There is also an additional 9-cell battery available for around $250 US (yea its expensive) that will stretch time to around 4 hours.

Agree on the touchpad, its a little misplaced. Although i use an external mouse most of the time and set one option to disable the touchpad when using a USB or bluetooth mouse.

 

same here ap27 external mouse .. n r u using omega drivers ? if so what release ? that will make it jump that high plus the ati tool

 

Hello guys and gals,

I am contemplating to buy the S1-M002A9. I like the specs and seems to be what I need. Moreover, form what I could figure from LG website it DOES NOT have a glossy screan, but a matte one. Personally I dislike glossy screens, so this is even one more reason to buy. I just want to have a confirmation from you that INDEED S1-M002A9 has a matte screen and how would you rate the screen, compared to other laptops you might have owned. Thanks a lot!

Edit: One more thing; did any of you try to install a Linux distribution on S1?

 

@ 31337: Yup...using Omegas 3.8.291 (Catalyst 6.9 i think).

@ Moose: Yes, the S1-M002A9 comes with a WSXGA+ matte screen with a native resolution of 1680x1050. There is another S1-P402A9 that comes with a 1280x800 glossy screen and less RAM (1GB). I find the screen is perfect, although there are quite a few laptops out there with higher brightness levels. I dont find the brightness levels uncomfortable. The screen is certainly better than my old Dell 9100. Hardly noticable light leakage and no rippling if you press on the back of the lid.

 

Sorry for this sudden question, but has anyone been able to automatically downclock the GPU when not in use through some sort of software?

 

i dont know about teh automatic part...but you can do it manually through ATi Tool by setting profiles.

 

Moose, yes S1-M002A9 has matte screen.
I really like the screen of my notebook. Sometimes in the computer laboratory in my college i compare the notebooks screens and only the vaio's screen are brighter than LG's.
And the viewing angles are very very good.

bye.

 

where u bought the LG S1 guys???

 

In the USA, its available through MilestonePC.com.
In Canada, you may be able to find it at a few other resellers...such as NCIX or CanadaComputers

 

I got it from MilestonePC.com

 

I purchased mine from MilestonePC as well.

 

That's correct we sell LG laptops and others to both USA and Canada, they can be found here and here respectively.

Here's a review of the LG S1-M001A9 which is the Core Duo, the C2D is M002A9 and is also very good.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=69108

If you have any inquiries, please email, the information is located in the signature.

Thanks,

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