14 DAY TRIAL // LG would have been able to create a laptop more affordable than Ultrabooks by not submitting to the thickness rule, but it chose to go ahead and focus on performance instead.
The machine that the company eventually put together is not exactly something that will show up all over the world.
Instead, it is restricted to stores from South Korea, for now at any rate.
Then again, its price tag wouldn't really make it accessible to many people even if it was made available worldwide.
The cheapest hardware profile of the item sells for $1,323 (970 Euro), while the most feature-packed model almost reaches $2,000 (1,954, or 1,432 Euro).
LG's new invention has the name of Xnote P330 and boasts a screen size of 13.3 inches, though doesn't look it, since it has a very thin bezel (8mm).
The reason it does not qualify as an ultrabook is the thickness of 32mm, more than the 20mm that Intel imposed as a maximum.
Moving on to the specifications, a second-generation Intel Core processor is at the heart of the configuration, backed by 4 GB of RAM (random access memory) and paired with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M graphics card.
Just the mere presence of the discrete GPU is enough to show this isn't supposed to be just any laptop, but one capable of gaming and the like.
That said, the LCD has a native resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels (HD) and LED backlighting.
The list of components also includes USB 3.0, an HDMI output, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Gigabit Ethernet and, for storage, both an HDD (hard disk drive) and an SSD (solid state drive) in 40GB/640GB or 64GB/750GB configurations.
Finally, the Samsung Xnote P330 has a weight of 1.7 kilograms and runs on the energy provided by a 6-cell battery.