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Closer look at the Neo Elan L4300 3D Laptop

We’ve had this gaming laptop from Neo since December but have very little time to play around with it. The Neo Elan L4300-3D was launched back in August 2010 and remains the flagship notebook of Neo.

With a large 15.6″ display and a bulky form factor, this laptop isn’t meant to be carried around a lot. While the unit is already heavy, it also comes with a large power adapter that adds close to another kilo to the system.

Included in the box is one set of nVidia 3D Vision Kit (3D glasses & IR emitter) so you can play games in 3D while wearing the active glasses.

I have not tried this with Starcraft 2 but I read on the Blizzard website that it now supports 3D so I’ll be trying it later tonight once all the drivers and patches have been downloaded.

Neo Elan L4300-3D
15.6″ HD display @ 1366×768 pixels
Intel Core i7 740QM @ 1.73GHz (4 cores, 8 threads) up to 2.93GHz on Turbo Boost
4GB DDR3 RAM (max 8GB)
500GB SATA HDD
nVidia GeForce GTX 285M w/ 1GB GDDR3
Bluray Combo Drive (DVD+RW/CD+RW)
3 x USB 2.0 ports
1 x USB 3.0 port
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.1
HDMI port
eSATA port
IEEE 1394a Firewire port
DVI-I out/SPDIF out
RJ45/LAN port

The specs of the Elan L4300 is pretty impressive too with a combo of an Intel Core i7 and NVidia GTX 285M. I also noticed that there’s an embedded fingerprint scanner in the middle of the trackpad (something I did not see during the launch of the product last year).

Here’s the screenshot of the Windows Experience Index for any of you who are interested what it looks like.

The processor scored a nice 7.1 on WEI while the graphics got a solid 6.8.

The Neo Elan L4300-3D started out at Php99,990 at launch date so I’m not sure if it has gone down a bit since then. It’s not cheap but it can surely carry its weight.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

51 Responses

  1. Avatar for JP JP says:

    @sykes AND Duke
    WILL YOU PLEASE QUIT SPEAKING? THE TWO OF US WERE TALKING SENSIBLY SO PLEASE GET OFF OUR TALKS! YOUR LACK OF POLITENESS TO THOSE WHO MADE CONVERSATIONS MAKE THE BOTH OF YOU WORSE THAN MOSQUITOES. GO SUCK YOUR DICK, THE TWO OF YOU AND FUCK EACH OTHER!

    @niko arrizalde
    ARE YOU A JERK? YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT! GET LOST, SON OF A BITCH!

    @Paul
    FUCK YOU! YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT SO DON’T INTERFERE, YOU ASSHOLE! ALSO, YOU DON’T KNOW THAT THIS LAPTOP ISN’T FOR GAMING…IT’S FOR 3D VIEWING! GO READ THE POST FIRST AND USE YOUR HEAD YOU DUMBASS!

  2. Avatar for Kenneth Yamat Kenneth Yamat says:

    Any Neo products suck. SUCK, ugly builds, luck luster after sales. Don’t buy any ish from them, they will be the worst tech that could invest in.

  3. Avatar for Paul Paul says:

    The discussion about how power guzzling video cards can be is basically moot.

    This is a GAMING LAPTOP. You’re not supposed to play on battery for more than an hour, if you’re going to do any gaming on the laptop it will be plugged in.

    Now you two please stop the dick waving, it only makes you look gay.

  4. Avatar for maxxes maxxes says:

    @JP
    Why do you act like that all of a sudden?
    You’re the reason why i left myself speaking in a bad way because you spoke to me in a bad way too.

    And please, it’s quite obvious that your words are mixed with angered emotions because of the way you deal with others. Many people will hate you because you jest bad attitude just in the way you speak.

    I’m outta here because i do not want to deal with immature idiots like you, i’m full. I gonna leave the rest of ranting for this topic to you.

    And now, this statement makes me a troll because i know what a troll is. Others just keep on branding people with the term “troll” even if they don’t know what it means. Those people lack comprehension because they don’t know what they’re talking about.

    And i do not want that “Google algorithm” stuff, i’m not a google fanboy. Google sucks because the only thing they cared for is money and through your support to them, your feeding your money to them.

    I’m really outta here. It’s my pleasure to speak this long to a scum like you.

    Adios, indio.

  5. Avatar for JP JP says:

    @maxxes
    JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!

  6. Avatar for niko arrizalde niko arrizalde says:

    This is one shitty laptop to begin with, specs-wise. I like the looks and the 15.6 form factor. But it really doesn’t deserve that much attention with its specs

    @JP Don’t feed the troll

  7. Avatar for JP JP says:

    @maxxes

    And I’m just wondering what made you jump to the conclusion that Google is “unreliable”? You don’t even understand Google’s complex algorithm, so stop trolling.

    The more keep on lengthening the discussion, the more you make a fool out of yourself.

  8. Avatar for JP JP says:

    @maxxes

    Again, if you really want to use your head, you’d know that heading on to hardware forums is actually much more logical since communities vet on peripherals before jumping to conclusions based on reading the specs on white sheets like you.

    And please, kindly try to notice that I was comparing the GTX 285m to the new 400 series. Otherwise, I wouldn’t even have come to the objective opinion(or rather assumption) that the 285m is a relatively higher power guzzler.

    And hey, that indirect “dumb” rant — obvious troll is obvious.

  9. Avatar for maxxes maxxes says:

    @JP
    This is what i want you to search for:
    http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_285m_us.html

    Jump to the specifications tab.

    Quit using google if you were to search complex information. And don’t even use Google if you were to make your Thesis or Term Paper…it’s unreliable.

  10. Avatar for maxxes maxxes says:

    @JP
    Excuse me, show us the whitepaper of GTX 285 from Nvidia, not from Google.

    @Sykes
    I’m not trolling. I am just discussing a topic which is relative to the hardware of the laptop presented here.

    (Troll (noun): someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.)

    I’m not disrupting the discussion here because i’m talking about the specs of GTX 285M, which is the GPU of this laptop. Please read such definition before branding people with the noun “troll”.

    Darn, people on the internet gets dumber and dumber.

  11. Avatar for Duke Duke says:

    Supplementary information for the troll, maxxes:

    http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124636

    “The performance of the GTX 460 (single) is about the same as the GTX 280/285/275, with the GTX285 being about 3 to 5 frames faster on older games, and about 3 to 5 frames slower on newer ones. However the GTX 460 takes less of a penalty than the GTX 285 with anti-aliasing and offers DX11.

    That being said, there are some practical considerations that make the GTX 460 attractive:

    *it requires about 24 amps on the 12 volt rail, vs the 36 amps that the GTX 285 requires;
    *it is physically considerably smaller than the GTX 285 and will more easily fit in standard ATX case;
    *it generates less heat than the GTX 285;
    *it can safely run on a good quality 480 watt power supply which would not be advisable with the GTX 285; and
    *it is more scalable with SLI, offering the performance of a GTX 570/480/580 in that configuration (though with stronger PSU).”

    These figures apply to the architecture of the mobility versions, plus Optimus of course.

  12. Avatar for Sykes Sykes says:

    Yep, optimus is really one hell of a technology, I just switch the card off when I’m not playing games on my M11x. I wonder why ATI hasn’t implemented a similar tech on their mobile gpus yet?

    btw, buy ASUS, they use their own boards and HYNIX ram.

    @maxxes, shove off, troll.

  13. Avatar for JP JP says:

    Well, thank you for that compliment.

    The GTX 285m is an overclocked 9800 and consumes relatively higher wattage even during idle phase, and models before the new FERMI cards were known power guzzlers that lacked Optimus — switching betwen integrated graphics (Intel HD) and discrete graphics(NVIDIA).

    And please don’t get me started on WEI scores. I overclock my processors, dude.

    There’s this thing called Google, it’s free, you may want to use it.

  14. Avatar for Harley Harley says:

    i currently own a neo Elan 3103 and it has been with me for more than a year now and it still never fails me. Elan Series are for home usage and eats alot of power, thus I am not recommending it to carry around without a good outlet!

    thanks sir abe for featuring a neo laptop!

    peace!

  15. Avatar for maxxes maxxes says:

    @JP
    You’re a “pilosopo”.
    Do you even know what the WEI numbers mean?
    Do you have any proofs that the GTX 285M is a power guzzler? Show it to us ASAP.

  16. Avatar for novus novus says:

    comparing a 3d laptop to a regular laptop isn’t justifiable. 3d laptops are comparatively more expensive than regular laptops (even if they have similar hardware specs).

    @Beny
    I think this isn’t overpriced for a 3D laptop. other 3d laptops range from Php. 120,000 up to 180,000!
    3D Laptops are priced way too insane than regular laptops.

  17. Avatar for JP JP says:

    I doubt this thing even has 2 HDD compartments, which is the standard build for gaming laptops.

  18. Avatar for Faust Faust says:

    does this neo 3d laptop able to play movies rendered in 3d?

  19. Avatar for Beny Beny says:

    It’s really overpriced. At that price point. An Asus G73JW or even a G53JW is far more reasonable to get. Either models have 7200rpm HDDs and 1333mhz RAM. As for the GTX285m GPU, it’s pretty outdated and should’ve been a GTX460m instead.

    And no, gaming laptops were not meant to be trusted with battery life considering that mobile i7 processors consume quite a lot of power along with the high end mobile GPUs.

  20. Avatar for jin jin says:

    About the WEI rating.

    Acer Aspire i3-370M 2.4Ghz, 500Gb, 2Gb Ddr3, Ati 5650 1Gb Ddr3 scores 5.5 in WEI Rating for around Php 36,000. Almost 1/3 of the price of that monster laptop.

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