14 DAY TRIAL // LG is serious about its effort to help turn 3D into a more readily available technology, so it went ahead and built, among other things, the A540 notebook.
The A540 is one of those laptops that possesses every trait needed to make people reconsider their view that a laptop should be as thin and light as possible.
Ultrabooks are all well and good, but they just don't cut it when it comes to performance, this being one of the likely reasons why they haven't managed to impress many people with how they sold (yet).
Measuring 15.6 inches in diagonal, the A540 has a Full HD (1920x1080) glasses-free 3D display, with an IPS panel to boot.
In other words, the viewing angles on this thing aren't half bad (178 degrees horizontal/vertical, or thereabouts).
The insides of the notebooks rely on an Intel Core i5 or Core i7 central processing unit (CPU).
LG made it possible for up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM (random access memory) to be implemented as well.
What is more important, though, is that the mobile PC features a discrete GPU as well: the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555.
While the CPU's built-in GMA HD is good enough for web browsing and other basic things, it can't pull its weight very well in high-resolution 3D video, not to mention games.
On that note, the LG A540 is sure to impress gamers when it finally starts shipping in the second quarter of the year (2012).
Other specifications include a hard disk drive (HDD) of 1TB, Bluetooth 3.0, 4.1-channel audio, USB 2.0 and 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet and 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi.
The whole rig weighs 2.6 kilograms (5.73 pounds) and relies on a head-tracking camera (placed above the screen).
Unfortunately, the report that exposed the impending arrival of the LG A540 had no price tag to offer.