Digital Home Thoughts: LG's X120 Quick Boot Feature Seems a Bit Slow

"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."

I'm not as easily impressed. Granted the boot is quick, but what really matters to me is the total time before I can actually do something. As a point of reference, if I hibernate my Aspire One with the browser open, I can go from cold to being able to use the browser including connecting to wireless in about 30 seconds, which is a few seconds faster than this since it appears you have to open applications on the Splashtop interface after it boots.