LG's new X120 netbook with Splashtop-powered instant on

We just bumped into LG's X120, a barely-differentiated followup to the X110 that's floating around the show floor. There's still a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive, Windows XP and a 10-inch WSVGA screen, but what's new is the Splashtop-powered "LG Smart On" OS, which does the quick boot thing we've come to know and love on many ASUS products, the Voodoo Envy 133 and elsewhere. The effect, as always, is pretty stunning, and the OS should be helpful for a quick look at the web or to hop on IM over the laptop's WiFi connectivity. The netbook itself seems to have been tweaked a tad on aesthetics, but it's still a bit thicker than we'd like at this point for the netbook market. We're short on further details, but since the X110 did 3G, there's a good chance that'll be in play as well -- we're still waiting on PR from LG. In the meantime, you can check out a video of the startup after the break.

Gallery: LG's new X120 netbook with Splashtop-powered instant on

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[yas @ Jan 9th 2009 6:45PM]

That was a slow boot up, notice how he said it was a pre model when it failed to load as fast. Annoying!

[konshuss @ Jan 10th 2009 12:53AM]

*puts face in hands* AUGHH...... soooo slow.

[Charlie Brown @ Jan 11th 2009 9:36PM]

The system didn't have power cord plugged in and was running on battery power only (which LG had the system set at low CPU performance mode while on battery power only), so that has effected the Smart On performance. Since that was a pre-model version of Smart On, it has yet to be optimized fully for all power modes. :-)

[Sergei @ Jan 12th 2009 5:09PM]

I work for DeviceVM, the maker of Splashtop. What you see in the video *is* an early preview version, so the performance is not where we get it by the time products ship commercially. Additionally, the browser waits for the network connection, which was not available at the show floor. Hence the delay towards the end of the video.

[Verythrax @ Jan 9th 2009 6:51PM]

Didn't saw the video, but it looks classy.

[twitchy @ Jan 9th 2009 7:29PM]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but why doesn't ASUS put Splashtop on its own netbooks?

[Kitty @ Jan 10th 2009 2:05AM]

Because it's crap?

[brett @ Jan 9th 2009 7:30PM]

wow, you really need a new video camera :)

[abward @ Jan 9th 2009 8:30PM]

I don't get it. Why not just use suspend or hibernate? I suspend all the time and my computer is ready in about 1-2 seconds.

[dawnnamira @ Jan 9th 2009 9:34PM]

Battery life? I don't like using sleep on my laptop because of the fact that the batteries are still drained and I know many people who don't use sleep for that reason.

[superhobo @ Jan 10th 2009 1:58AM]

I'm sick of "1.6GHz Atom"

[Tom From MySpace @ Jan 12th 2009 5:17AM]

I wont be sick of it when its 1.6GHz Quad-Core Atom

[unimpressed @ Jan 10th 2009 3:14AM]

That wasn't fast at all. It was 10 seconds to make a choice and It was 30 seconds before the browser came up and another. I can get my computer up from a HDD hibernate that fast. When it is in around 5 seconds, I'll buy one.

[James T @ Jan 11th 2009 9:43PM]

Well... most BIOSes take something like 5 - 8 secs to initialize, I wonder how it is possible to get a system running from cold boot in 5 secs with a conventional BIOS ... :P

[astrodemoniac @ Jan 10th 2009 5:47AM]

Bwahhahahaha... I really LOLed...

What use is to have the pc booted up in 5 secs if it takes it 40 extra sec to open the web browser? o_0

[Dingoid @ Jan 10th 2009 5:37PM]

Relatively slow really

Coming out of hibernate in Windows 7 is exceptionally fast - been playing around with it on my macbook pro and it is much faster than Mac OS X to come out of hibernate.

[Linuxer @ Jan 11th 2009 10:03PM]

Does Windows 7 run on a netbook?! I wonder how MS can magically turn Win7 to run on lower performance systems in 12 months if they couldn't have done it for Vista which took 4 years?! LOL

[ahmedalhani @ Jan 11th 2009 12:58AM]

will this be avaliable for windows 2??

[Oli D @ Jan 11th 2009 6:27AM]

gOS' cloud splashtop seems to perform better than this, as well as look nicer

[Charlie Brown @ Jan 11th 2009 9:31PM]

The system didn't have power cord plugged in and was running on battery power only (which LG had the system set at low CPU performance mode while on battery power only), so that has effected the Smart On performance. Since that was a pre-model version of Smart On, it has yet to be optimized fully for all power modes. :-)

[James T @ Jan 11th 2009 9:51PM]

Well... most BIOSes take something like 5 - 8 secs to initialize, I wonder how it is possible to get a system running from cold boot in 5 secs with a conventional BIOS??? ... :P

[myst @ Feb 18th 2009 1:16AM]

all i care about is aesthetics n battery efficiency...ill format 'n' run a fresh install of fedora.

xp sucks, vista is short sighted, 'n' seven will become the "seventh embarrassments of silicon valley."


non bloated OS = 2 a greener place + extended battery power.
m.soft sucks...