LG's R400 hybrid hard drive laptop outed

Samsung's not the only mega Korean manufacturer with a little bit of hybrid hard drive action to show off this week. Apparently LG is getting into the game as well, as it's stuffed one of those flash-cached, speed-booting, battery-saving and performance-enhancing drives into the new R400, which should be launching at the end of this month. Along with the snappy 120GB drive, the R400 (not to be confused with Toshiba's flagship 12-incher) includes a 128MB ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 graphics card, 14.1-inch LCD, 1.73GHz T5300 Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1GB of RAM and Bluetooth. The Inquirer mentions a built-in 1.3 megapixel webcam, but we're not spotting the camera in the pic above. The best news is that all of this appears to be going for the perfectly reasonable price of $1,199 Canadian -- about 37 cents in real people money! There's obviously some shadiness here, and we're looking forward to LG's official announcement to confirm the specs and maybe jack up the price a grand or so, but for now we sure are liking to looks of this here R400.

[Via The Inquirer]

[JoshLowry @ Mar 8th 2007 8:56AM]

Wow, that seems like a pretty good deal. Turns out to be $1,019 US Dollars.

I imagine it won't be near that price though. Like you said, we need some official numbers posted!




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[Tim @ Apr 26th 2007 10:45AM]

I've got them for sale here, we're doing it at $1249 CDN. It is sweet!

www.superiorcomputers.ca

I'll be adding it to the site shortly.

[F1ghter @ Mar 8th 2007 9:29AM]

If that's true, it seems like a great deal. It is definitely the next step towards SSD laptops.

[Chris @ Mar 8th 2007 9:29AM]

I must have been out of the market for some time. Since when did 14.1" display laptops start getting 10-key extensions? My guess is that the laptop pictured is not the same one in the description.

[Sindre Strandum @ Mar 8th 2007 11:05AM]

Agreed with you Chris, my thoughts exactly. It dont even have the webcam..

http://bilder.hardware.no/186/186557/i_186557.jpg

[K.R @ Mar 8th 2007 9:34AM]

As a Canadian, I'll be the first one to take offense with that remark...... No more maple syrup for engadget :P

[patsy @ Mar 8th 2007 12:02PM]

Or, to quote Antonio Scarpacci from Wings: "I resent that statement--I don't deny it, I just resent it."

[PEZ @ Mar 8th 2007 10:45AM]

Hmmm, do the math: if you get a canadian hooker for say, $250 canadian (this is 2002/2003 money) then in the US dollar, it will cost you about 130/150 USD.

Not bad! Now to convert that to non-hooker US laptop dollars...

[Sindre Strandum @ Mar 8th 2007 11:40AM]

[huh, my comment got cut in half, anyways.. posting the rest now]

Above is a picture of LG's other 14" called T1.
Guessing its not practically possible to make a numpad on a 14" keyboard.

[willw @ Mar 8th 2007 11:11AM]

The picture at that site looks the the S1, as it has the Num Pad.

The one Sindre Strandum just posted is the T1.

Neither are the laptop in question though.

[k0a10 @ Mar 8th 2007 11:16AM]

What's an editor troll posting worth in USD ad-clicks?

[Chris @ Mar 8th 2007 11:22AM]

Yeah engadget, whats with the 'real people' money...there's nothing fake about Canadians or their currency!

[catachip @ Mar 8th 2007 11:27AM]

$1,199 CAD = $1,017 USD

[juztin @ Mar 8th 2007 1:03PM]

hahahahahahahaha "real peoples money" as a native Canadian who moved to the states..I find that highly amusing. Good show, engadget!

[k0a10 @ Mar 8th 2007 3:06PM]

juztin, and we still miss you.

By the way, how many euros would that be?

[ashmist @ Mar 8th 2007 11:10PM]

erm... at the way things are going, give it a few years and we'll all be laughing at the US dollar as being funny money.

[Tom @ Mar 9th 2007 8:48PM]

Canada benefits from our dollar being worth less, but americans couldn't begin to comprehend why.

It makes all of the spontaneous american tourists spend a lot more than they intended to :D

That and generally canadians earn more money than americans, because we all have the same living expenses, so it evens out anyways.

[e2m48 @ Apr 15th 2007 2:17AM]

Hybrid HDD? Hmmm.. I think its not! And the picture above is not for the actual product coz I've even seen this notebook in a mall here in qatar. Anyway, just click the below link and you will see what I mean. I need ur comments guys..

http://www.lge.com/products/model/detail/R400Series.jhtml