The WinBook LM was a Pentium-based laptop, announced in December 1996 alongside the XP5 Pro.
Like the XP5 Pro, I can't see much of a reason as to why the WinBook LM was made. It's another Pentium laptop, with similar specs and performance to the FX. It sold at a few hundred dollars lower than the FX, but that doesn't make much of a difference when the LM cost $3,000 and the FX cost $3,400, according to one print ad I found. Of course, both models could be configured in all sorts of ways which would change the price. The LM does have a lower RAM ceiling than the FX, and less options overall. The FX's highest end config beat the LM's highest end config, but the mid range (which is what most would be) is pretty similar.
If the design looks strangely familiar, it may be for a good reason. Like most laptop brands of the 90s, WinBook went through an Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) to build the LM. Usually, a company based in China or Taiwan that had off the shelf designs that could be modified by the customer and produced by the ODM. The ODM that designed the WinBook LM was Compal. Dell also went through Compal for one of their laptops, the Latitude LM. Thing is, both LM laptops used effectively the same design, with neither company modifying it much. One rumor I've heard is that WinBook chose the LM name to invoke the idea that Dell had a hand in designing it, which wasn't true.
I've seen three different display bezel labeling schemes for these models. One (seen in the image on this page) displays the full WinBook LM name. I've seen another that had no text at all on the display bezel, then a third that just displays WinBook, with no LM label. I've seen the first two in eBay listings, but I've only seen that third one in a print ad, so I don't know whether any shipped that way.
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