LG P330 (i7 + Nvidia 555m!)

[IntenseIGFX]

Wow, that Asus is sexy. If only it had a good screen! I don't think anything will ever compare with the sony Z. If the Z2 had an internal 555GT or something similar, I'd die. I love my Z1, but I'd like some more GPU power.

[lee_what2004]

Has anyone found any other alternatives, I could only find these:

GT 555m
Asus N45SF
Alienware M14x

GT550m:
Lenovo Ideapad Y470
ASUS 43SN
Asus 45SF

GT 540M:
Acer Aspire TimelineX AS3830TG
Packard Bell Easy Note NX69
Asus U46SV
Asus X43SV
MSI X460DX

N45SF is GT555M

[IntenseIGFX]

Yea, its on that list problem is, the screen isn't 1600x900. It also doesn't say what kind of quality screen it is. I could deal with a lower res for a premium panel.

[hyttjo]

Has anyone found any other alternatives, I could only find these:

GT 555m
Asus N45SF
Alienware M14x

GT550m:
Lenovo Ideapad Y470
ASUS 43SN
Asus 45SF

GT 540M:
Acer Aspire TimelineX AS3830TG
Packard Bell Easy Note NX69
Asus U46SV
Asus X43SV
MSI X460DX

This list is exactly what I did two months ago when it was time to me upgrade my old HP DV6 to something more compact and powerful. So here's my thoughts:

Asus N45SF and N43SN aren't pleasing to my eye, they look really cheap but performance is good (at least in N45SF).
Alienware M14x is too bulky, heavy and ugly, and also overpriced (1500 USD), specs are great though.
Lenovo Ideapad Y470 I really like this one, good looks, solid build quality and pretty good performance, and also can be heavily customizable. Sadly this isn't available in the Europe, I couldn't find anywhere, otherwise I would have choose this one.
Acer Aspire TimelineX AS3830TG has throttling problems, but being a 13.3" it is really compact which I like alot. It also has a good screen (although glossy one).
Packard Bell Easy Note NX69 is cheap but still 200 USD more than Asus X43SV, I didn't like the looks or the brand. There were also some complaints about build quality feeling very plastic.
Asus U46SV was priced little high two months ago (in Finland 1100 USD and in other parts of Europe cheapest was 1000 USD), it is very compact with still good screen estate with being a slim bezel 14", good build quality and above average performance. Screen could have been better.
MSI X460DX compared to Asus X43SV was little bigger and heavier and priced 100 USD higher in otherwise very similar package, so picking was easy.
Asus X43SV a.k.a Asus K43SV, I bought this one because very cheap price, from Amazon.de it was only 600 USD. It had poor performance compared to others in this list but with my tweaking I solved it somewhat easily. It has IMHO good looks, and pretty good build quality (not the best but much much better than my previous HP DV6, at least surrounding of keyboard is made of aluminium), runs very cool and is really quiet (after BIOS update which fixed fan constantly running), Idle temps 45C and even when playing BF3 70C without hardly any fan noise. Screen was a very big disappointment after HP DV6.

Then I started modding this X43SV:
i3-2310m -> i7-2630qm (also changed thermal paste to IC Diamond 7)
overclocking GT540M gpu 675mhz/900mhz -> 800mhz/900mhz (memory couldn't handle any overclocking)
4GB DDR3 1333mhz -> 8GB DDR3 1333mhz
320gb -> 96gb Kingston SSD and 1000gb Samsung M8 (removed optical drive)
german layout keyboard -> backlight nordic layout keyboard
14" 1366x768 glare -> 14" 1366x768 matte screen (could have just as easily upgrade it to 1600x900 but then my gaming performance would have decreased so I decided to stick with lower resolution)
and lastly I changed my wlan card to Wlan + BT 3.0

This all affected to performance a great deal:
3dmark06 gave me a score before any changes 8500 points and after these 10700 points
BF3 framerate increased in native resolution and High settings from average 22fps to 45fps
Temperatures increased on load from 70C to 78C but still it doesn't feel hot at all, and is really quiet, I am impressed with the cooling solution of this laptop.

My next upgrade will be to change notebooks covers from stock dark brown to all white, and to make internal usb hub inside the computer so my gaming mouse receiver will be hidden and also free its usb port

On a last note the Asus stock 90W charger was really big so I bought Lepa 90W AD9009 which is ridiculously small, smaller than my wallet I highly recommend this to all (it came with adpaters to all current laptops)

Btw. LG P330 would be my dream laptop, and any of these laptops in the list can't compete with it but I have followed half year of this product and what first seemed to be vaporware, now seems that it will never come out available outside of South Korea. I'm sad What a great modding platform it could have been

Oh, I almost forgot: One very good alternative could be Samsung NP700Z4A, it is very small aluminium laptop with thin bezel and 14" 1600x900 matte screen, i5-2430m, 8GB, 750GB, 6750m, backlight keyboard. 15.6" bigger brother (NP700Z5A) of this laptop has received plenty of criticism about its screen quality but I think it could be satisfactory. Currently it has been released only in the Thailand and Philippines and tomorrow (15. of December) it will be released in the China. Price tag of this product is 1300 USD (reasonable regarding its specs).

[Carmon]

LG’s P330 ultra-thin notebook is finally made available in Korea,the P330 is an ultra-thin notebook by LG, which originally saw a Intel Core i7 processor under the hood when it was first revealed. However it appears that it has been taken down a notch and will instead run on an Intel Core i5-2435M processor at 2.4GHz.

[Ryan]

LG’s P330 ultra-thin notebook is finally made available in Korea,the P330 is an ultra-thin notebook by LG, which originally saw a Intel Core i7 processor under the hood when it was first revealed. However it appears that it has been taken down a notch and will instead run on an Intel Core i5-2435M processor at 2.4GHz.

There are two versions of the P330.

One with the i5, and the other with i7.

Neither are IPS panel at this point.

[nar0]

You can also add

6650M:
Sony Vaio Z

6630M:
Sony Vaio SB
Sony Vaio SA

[IntenseIGFX]

Vaio Z has a dock card which I hear has bandwidth issues. Also, it gets super hot apparently. It's really not made for any gaming from what I understand.

[Natadiem]

I think I found another review:

Google Translate

[Ryan]

You guys do know that the narrow bezel is a scam, right?

The entire black screenish-looking part is not a part of the screen, it is simply a black insert that looks like the bezel.