There are a lot of reviews on the Net claiming that the P300 is fighting in the same league as the MacBook Air. This is probably because a reviewer thought: “Hey, they are almost the same thickness, and ­neither has a DVD drive, which means they must be the same.” These ­reviews are misguided and should be ignored.

Now these reviewers say that the Air is 1.94cm thick and the P300 is 2.1cm thick. Had they bothered to get out a ruler, like we did, they’d realise that the P300 is in fact 3.2cm thick. So why the discrepancy between the two? Well, the Air is measured at its thickest part, while the P300 is about 2 cm thick somewhere in the middle, and that’s the figure all the reviewers are using. LG have put a sort of zebra-stripe ­pattern on the top. One could argue that it looks stylish, and at the very least it’s not ­boring. Its screen is a very good 13.3 inch glossy LCD (with a hinge made of an ­Aluminium alloy, very exotic).  The real selling point of the P300 is the hardware. The model we tested sits slap-bang in the middle of the available specs for this ­notebook. It has a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 (“Merom”) processor and 2GB of RAM. The video performance too is very good, as it comes with the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS display adapter. On the storage front, there is more than enough, with the 160GB hard disk.

When it comes to price, the LG will fit your pocket way better than the Air.