LG will soon sell another series of laptop with hybrid HDD technology in Korea. This time, it’s a 13.3-inch E300-AP75K model, featuring an Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 (2.2GHz) processor, a WXGA Fine Bright display, a 2GB of main memory, a DVD SuperMulti burner, an integrated 1.3MP webcam module, a HDMI output, WiFI connectivity, and an ATI Radeon X1250 graphics engine with shared memory. As for the hybrid hard drive, you would get a 160GB of Hybrid HDD, along with a 256MB of Flash memory. And since Windows Vista is the only operating system which fully supports hybrid HDD technology, you can expect this 1.3kg notebook to be loaded with Vista. If interested, €1200 is all you have to pay to purchase one of these.

If you wonder, what is Hybrid HDD anyway? Well, it’s a type of large-buffer computer hard disk drive which is way different than standard hard drives in that it employs a large buffer (up to 1 GB) of non-volatile flash memory to cache data during normal use. By primarily using this large buffer for non-volatile data storage, the platters of the hard drive are at rest almost all of the time, instead of constantly spinning as they are in current hard drives. The benefits include faster speed, decreased power consumption, improved reliability, and a faster boot process.