Well I’m one of the lucky few people who has gotten to see one of these babies in person. We’re going to do a quick video of it shortly, but I thought I’d take a couple of minutes to show it off a bit. The battery came with a 65% charge on it, which translates (from Windows) to 2 hours 37 minutes while playing an .avi file wirelessly over the home network. Unfortunately it came with one of these, and I don’t have the North American equivalent handy, so I’m limited to the charge that came on the battery as far as testing goes, but that won’t stop me from ripping it apart!

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Taking apart the LG X120 was a relatively simple affair. Remove the bottom screws, pull up the keyboard in the usual way, then remove the two screws under the keyboard, and the whole shell should snap apart for you. You can see that the hard drive and RAM can be quite easily changed for other models, and the fan uses a fairly rudimentary (but actually kinda clever) design to cool both the chipset and the Atom CPU. Spec-wise not a lot has changed from the X110, but the fit & finish of this new model is definitely improved. It’s stylish looking and I LOVE the keyboard/touch pad. Someone finally got it right. Too many times I’ve seen “perfect keyboard except…” and touchpads that are just ridiculously small. This 10″ model has crammed in everything you need, a decent-sized touch pad, and normal button positions. The glossy screen is very bright and vibrant, and while the speakers suck compared to a desktop, they’re not bad for a netbook, and compare very favorably to the Aspire One that I have here at home as well (won it at the staff Christmas party).

One thing I tested right away was the wireless. Unlike the Aspire One it requires no tweaking of the power saving features to properly stream my .avi files from the home server. Anyway, here’s a gallery. More to come.

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