LG A510 laptop computer
Most laptop manufacturers include the processor model or the graphics card type in their laptop’s name, but it isn’t a rule. The LG A510 laptop computer has nothing to do with neither Intel’s Atom Z510 processor nor any nVidia or ATI graphics chip with a similar name.
The world’s first FullHD 3D capable notebook has only a 15.6” screen with LED backlighting, probably because this is the most popular laptop computer screen size and LG didn’t dare to introduce such a unique laptop that wouldn’t sell well. Packing 1920 x 1080 pixels into such a small screen is something LG should be proud of. There aren’t many laptops on the market with FullHD screens yet. Most manufacturers still base their products on 1280 x 800, 1366 x 768, 1440 x 900 or 1600 x 900 resolution screens of different sizes: 16”, 17” or 18”.
The LGA510 laptop computer is based on Intel’s true Quad-Core processor design, the Core i7-740QM running at 1.73GHz with the possibility to increase speed of 1-2 cores to 2.93GHz when there is power left. As if four cores weren’t enough, this processor also uses HyperThreading, so each core is divided in two threads, further improving performance. LG also gives potential customers the option to choose a Core i3 or i5 processor, but it’s hard to imagine who would ask for a downgrade when there’s so much potential in a FullHD 3D laptop.
nVidia’s Geforce GT 425M is the graphics chip which makes 3D work on this particular laptop, with nVidia’s shutter glasses of course. This is a 3D (stereoscopic) technology that desperately needs further improvement, because wearing glasses for movies is not really a comfortable solution for most users. The graphics chip is pretty impressive with 96 CUDA cores running at 1120MHz, specifications taken directly from nVidia’s official website.
While it’s not likely to have a serious manufacturer mislabel its products, speeds above 1GHz are generally not found in laptop products. If you trust notebookcheck.com more, than core speed is exactly half, only 560MHz. It supports DirectX 11 but when it comes to performance it doesn’t perform better than AMD’s Mobility Radeon 4670. Yes, I said AMD, because the ATI brand name proved to be less popular than AMD, so they decided to drop less popular name in order to increase sales. nVidia’s DirectX 11 ready graphics card uses 1GB of 800MHz DDR3 memory, so it’s not really for 3D intensive games, although a FullHD screen would deserve at least a powerful SLI or Crossfire configuration to take advantage of the big resolution. Another important thing to know about the graphics card is that the HDMI port has the latest (1.4) version, which supports resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 at 24-25Hz or 4096 x 2160 at 24Hz. This also supports my idea about the necessity of a better graphics card in this laptop, so even games could be played in such high resolutions.
The laptop will be available in October 2010, but there isn’t any information on price or the exact date yet.
Written by Karpat Zoltan, date Oct 01, 2010 in Featured Articles, Laptops, LG
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