Well, this is about as small as playable PC gaming gets

[Mr Buckshot]

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=129843

I saw a whole line of these while shopping for a new camera in a Singaporean electronics mall.

This laptop is a 10.6" ultraportable tablet. It's small, sleek, and sexy, but it crams a Geforce Go 7300 into such a tiny package.

Personally, I believe that having a dedicated video card at all in a notebook of this size is a huge achievement. Well done, LG! The Geforce 7300 is considered low end, but compatibility with modern games should be flawless. It can run many games at 800x600 or 1024x768 on medium or low with playable frames. Older games might be able to run at the native WXGA resolution. Source games should have no problem running on medium-high at the native res.

Specs of the reviewed unit were: 1.2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo Ultra Low Voltage (don't be fooled by the low Ghz ratio - it's still fast enough for playable gaming), 1 GB DDR2 RAM, 80 GB 1.8" hard drive, external optical drive, and best of all, the Geforce 7300. Normally, notebooks/tablets of this form factor feature awesomely weak Intel GMA 950s in them.

Previously, the smallest laptop to feature a video card capable of playable gaming was the Dell XPS M1210, a 12.1" laptop with a Geforce 7400. And for extra info, the smallest laptop to feature a video card capable of high-end gaming would be a 14.1" laptop with a Geforce 8600M GT.

Pricing starts at around $2000 USD, but that's to be expected of any ultraportable. While I own a 15.4" laptop with a Geforce 6600 for only $1600 USD (bought it before Core/2 Duo even existed) my 15.4" laptop is heavy and thick with only 2 hours battery life.

and please, do not make those smarmy comments about how desktops > laptops. I'm pretty sure all laptop owners know about that power sacrifice, and they obviously have very good reasons for choosing laptops over desktops.

Discuss!

edit: PICS!
http://www.tabletpcreview.com/assets/1731.jpg

http://www.tabletpcreview.com/assets/1729.jpg

That's right, a 10.6" tablet with a Geforce Go 7300.

[Tweek]

cba reading it all.
BUT...
my laptop > 80% of desktops.
i've got a widescreen with a numpad!
so it's got some extra room in it for some of the more powerfull stuff.
it also weighs 7 kilos :D so it's portable, but not THAT portable.

[Zeph]

The mobile intel processors are amazing at gaming. They evolved into the current Core 2 Duo processors.

[leorimolo]

The 7300 go is shit compared a 7400 go, my laptop has that vid card (7300) and 2 gigs of ram I can only play on low and 800x600

[Tweek]

got a 7900 gtx (go) and 2 gb of ram, and play everything on highest settings. (sometimes tune down the processor intensive stuff, since that's least powerful bit in my pc)

[Mr Buckshot]

Nice laptop, Tweek. Personally, I avoid going into the 17" and larger laptop size. While I'd get the most powerful components, especially graphics card, I actually want my laptop to be considered portable, part of the reason why I like this 10.6" LG Tablet :D

When I do laptop gaming, a 15.4" mid-range notebook is ideal for me because it balances processing power and mobility. Anything larger is just so bulky and heavy that I might as well buy another desktop since such notebooks are not very usable on battery mode.

[Tweek]

ye my battery goes about 40 minutes when i'm using up alot of recources.

when i'm just doig word or something, it lats up to 2 hours.

i really saved on space with the battery, since i knew i wouldn't need it in the car or wherever the fuck people use laptops nowadays. i'd always ue it plugged in, so yey.

[Bad Waffle]

woot, same here, tweek. the only place i ever really use my laptop outside of my room is on car trips, or when we're staying in a hotel somewhere and i gots to have my 3ds. /hf

o/\o

[Mr Buckshot]

I use my laptop in school, in the car (for long drives), on the airplane (Singapore Airlines now has AC plugs in every seat), and at friends' or relatives' houses. And especially on the crapper. I bought a 9-cell battery for it because the battery life wasn't too good with the standard battery, especially with a 7200rpm HDD.

I'm interested in buying this ultraportable, actually. It fits better in my backpack with all my IB textbooks, plus people at school won't bug me to "see" the games on my laptop. In fact, I've been searching for an ultraportable exclusively for school use.

[Bad Waffle]

you take ib too? you take long craps too?

its like you're my asian brother. we can be like rush hour! i can be the funny black man, you can be the funny asian!!

[DrunkenSamus]

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker? Buckshot and WOL? OH dear no...the world is is just beginning to unravel.

[Bastinka]

Buckshot and WoL? What the hell.

Anyway are those cigarette packets in every picture, cuz like drugs are bad.
:hippy: