Posted:2006-06-09 By notebook review Number of View:381120
LAPTOP RATINGS LG LW40 REVIEW
NOTEBOOK PERFORMANCE BENCHMARK
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Posted:2006-06-09
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The LW series is new and its debut has been a success largely due to
the LW40 model. This notebook is a lucky combination of compact size
and powerful configuration. It is designed in the traditional LG style:
There are no garish elements to distract you from your work. The
designers only indulged themselves by placing a large logo of the
manufacturer on the lid:
The indicators block is made very well:
It is well readable irrespective of the position of the notebook’s lid. There’s nothing on the front panel:
But the developer put two USB ports on the back panel for some reason:
These USB ports aren’t easy to work with and are too close to each
other, making it impossible to plug in two large devices at the same
time. Besides them, the back panel quite appropriately carries a power
connector and a video output.
The rest of connectors are on the
notebook’s sides. On the left panel, there’s a D-sub connector for an
external monitor, a FireWire port, a single easily accessible USB port,
and a group of audio connectors:
A separate line input is included into the latter, which is good. The right side is almost fully occupied by an optical drive:
Besides it, there are LAN and modem ports, a card reader and an ExpressCard/34 slot there.
The slot is two times narrower than ordinary ones, but it doesn’t matter much because there are still no peripherals
for this as well as for normal-size ExpressCard slots. The LW40 comes
with a high-quality card-reader which supports xD format among
everything else – recommended for owners of Olympus cameras!
The keyboard is good, too:
There are no reduced-size keys here; the arrow keys are separate from the rest of the keyboard.
A special row of keys for text navigation is available. The only small
problem is that the brightness adjustment keys are in the right part of
the keyboard making it impossible to adjust this setting with only one
hand. Some user may also find the special solution from LG – combining
Insert and Delete in one button – inconvenient.
The touchpad follows the classic design:
There’s nothing superfluous here – just two keys and a vertical
scrolling zone – but it is a real pleasure to use this touchpad.
There’s a fashionable glossy coating on the display but its parameters
are not very good: a not very high maximum of brightness, average
viewing angles and average response time. The color reproduction is
quite good, though. You shouldn’t take this too seriously because such
drawbacks are typical to some extent of all the participating models
and even of all notebooks at large. The LW40’s display is good enough
for work in office applications and watching video.
The battery is the same for all LG notebooks:
So, the LW40 isn’t going to give up its market positions. Combining an
adequate price with good quality, it is the company’s main offering in
this sector – the competitors are challenged to beat this combination
if they can. You should definitely put this one into your “to consider”
list.
Performance
First in our laptop ratings guide I checked the notebooks in Business Winstone 2004 and Content Creation Winstone 2004 benchmarks
LG LW40 winstone benchmark
And here are the results produced by PCMark04:
LG LW40 pcmark performance
The results of the Photoshop CS are indicative of the overall performance of the CPU, platform and hard drive:
LG LW40 adobe photoshop
The well-balanced LW40 is almost as fast as the two notebooks
on the new platform. Other notebooks are slower. The two slowest models
shouldn’t be used to run such applications at all – they are only
capable of performing office tasks like processing text and
spreadsheets, browsing the Web, etc.
The next test shows what you can expect from these notebooks in gaming applications:
LG LW40 gaming benchmark
performed this test using the maximum display resolution of each
notebook, except for the LG T1 (I used 1280x800 with it because
1440x900 would have been too much for its integrated graphics core).
The Acer TravelMate 3222WXMi is the best and can cope with modern games
if you don’t use the highest graphics quality settings. Among other
notebooks, only models with the X600 are interesting. The Samsung X11
is second after the TravelMate 3222WXMi but I doubt it’s going to be
that fast in real games.
I also published the results of the CPU
subtest to show you that 3DMark03 favors the Centrino Core Duo
platform. This is indicated by the Samsung X11’s results. This platform
is the most promising one when it comes to games, considering that all
the leading game developers have confirmed support for dual-core
processors in their upcoming products.
And now, the results of the most important test in our laptop ratings guide:
I put the results the notebooks achieved in Reader’s mode and under
maximum load into one diagram because the difference between the two is
indicative of how well the manufacturer set up the power-saving
parameters. The Sony VGN-FJ1SR looks best here as it yields you its
full computing power under max load but is very economical in Reader’s
mode. Besides the Sony, there are two more leaders: LG’s T1 with a
high-capacity battery and an L series Core Duo processor which features
low power consumption, and ASUS W3H00V. The latter proved to be a bit
of a cheater, though. Even under max load with the portable/laptop
power management scheme selected this notebook never increased its CPU
frequency higher than 1.3GHz.
It’s all clear with the first two diagrams, but then there are some things I’d want to single out. The LW40 is very fast in the memory test; it’s the best Centrino-based notebook I’ve seen in this benchmark. The Acer TravelMate
3222WXMi is unrivalled in the graphics subsystem test just because it
has the fastest graphics adapter among the tested notebooks.
Nvidia’s
GeForce Go 7400 is downright disappointing. If you need fast graphics,
buy a notebook that has dedicated graphics memory. Graphics subsystems
of other kind (with such suffixes as TC, HM) are not much better than
integrated graphics and cannot ensure high performance in 3D. In the
disk subsystem test the notebooks rank up according to the spindle
rotation speed of the hard drive they use.
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