LG S210 Series

Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD, NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G
Display: 12.10 inch
Weight: 1.7kg, 1.765kg
Price: 1000, 1450 euro
Average of 4 scores (from 3 reviews)
LG S210-G.CB01A9
Specifications

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T6400
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
Display: 12.10 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 1.7kg
Price: 1000 euro
Links: LG homepage S210-G.CB01A9 (Model)
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Foreign Reviews
Source: Notebookjournal

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/15/2010
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 70% performance: 70% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 30% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 50%
LG S210-K.CBMAG
Specifications

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T9550
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G 256 MB
Display: 12.10 inch, 16:9, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 1.765kg
Price: 1450 euro
Sold in: EMEA
Links: LG homepage S210-K.CBMAG (Model)
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Reviews
Power to Go. A plus of processor performance to carry around in a small case? If you'd like that, you'll hardly find a 12.1 incher that computes faster than the S210 Pelago from LG at the moment. A Core 2 Duo T9550 keeps the computation artist on the move. Case, connections and display make an business suitable impression. You can read what the mini-machine, currently available for 1000 euro, is capable in this comprehensive review.
Foreign Reviews
Source: Notebookcheck

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/13/2010
Rating: Total score: 84% performance: 66% display: 80% mobility: 88% workmanship: 88% ergonomy: 87% emissions: 78%
Source: Notebookcheck

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/13/2010
Rating: Total score: 84% performance: 66% display: 80% mobility: 88% workmanship: 88% ergonomy: 87% emissions: 78%
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LG Electronics Inc. is a subsidiary of LG Group. It is a South Korean company and was founded as Goldstar Co, Ltd, in 1958. The group offers products in the fields of information technology, consumer electronics and mobile communications, and home appliances. LG Electronics is the world's third largest home appliance manufacturer. As a notebook manufacturer, LG only became known to a wider audience in the German-speaking market in 2005. After a few years, LG largely withdrew from the laptop sector. The product range includes OLED, LED/LCD and plasma TVs, home theater systems, Blu-ray players as well as audio and video players.
Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD: Onboard (shared Memory) GPU built in the GM45, GE45 and GS45 chipset (Montevina). Because of two more shaders and a higher core clock, much faster than the old GMA X3100. Still not advisable for gamers (DirectX 10 games not playable or only with very low settings). The integrated video processor is able to help decode HD videos (AVC/VC-2/MPEG2) , e.g., for a fluent Blu-Ray playback with slow CPUs.
NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G: Enhanced 8400M GS chip, which is manufactured in 65nm and shows slightly better performance due to a few minor optimizations.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).
The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.
T6400: Entry level dual core processor based on the Penryn core with only 2 MB level 2 cache and a low clock speed.
T9550:
The T9550 is a middle class dual-core CPU of the Core 2 Duo line and similar to the P9600 (except for the higher TDP of the T9550 - 35 vs 25 W). The performance of the T9550 should be sufficient for most applications and games of 2009.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
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80.5%: This rating is slightly above average, there are somewhat more devices with worse ratings. However, clear purchase recommendations look different.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.