Lenovo S10, Good Looks Netbook

fitri — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:23:19 +0000

What new’s from Lenovo? mmmmm….yeah Lenovo S10 is good looks are rooted in simplicity rather than bling. The chassis is made from a shiny, but not glossy, plastic that resists fingerprints. The hinges, which also contain a hole for a Kensington lock, have a tasteful matte-steel finish. The flat, rounded edges give the notebook a very thin, symmetrical design. The space-age blue status lights and color-coordinated wire mesh, which covers both the front-mounted speaker bar and the area above the keyboard, project a futuristic minimalism.Placed next to two competing 10-inch netbooks, the ASUS Eee PC 1000H and the MSI Wind, the S10 appears definitively thinner, though it’s not necessarily lighter. Our review unit featured a three-cell battery and tipped the scales at 2.6 pounds, which was the same weight as the six-cell MSI Wind, but 0.6 pounds lighter than the 3.2-pound Eee PC 1000H.

There are no huge surprises to be found in the IdeaPad S10, but the machine impresses at every turn. It’s pint-sized, light (2.7 pounds), and bereft of big power, featuring the now-standard 1.6-GHz Atom CPU and 1 GB of RAM. But dig deeper and you’ll find a series of impressive upgrades over the competition: The most visible is a 10.2-inch LCD vs. the 8.9-inch screen that’s become the norm on mini-notes. Another modest upgrade puts a 160-GB hard drive at your disposal, the largest among all netbooks we’ve seen. And you get Windows XP, not yet another Linux of the Month flavor that you’ll have to learn from scratch (and thankfully not Vista, which runs like molasses on these machines). Performance isn’t great, but compared to the category, it’s at the top. At the very least, it’s one of the few machines that were able to actually complete our benchmark routine.

Notlike many other netbooks, which either position their buttons on either side of the touchpad or use one long mouse button that clicks right and left, the S10 has two discrete buttons directly below its touchpad. Unlike the Eee PC 1000 series, which features a brick-hard mouse button, these buttons offer the kind of strong yet comfortable tactile feedback we want.

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Lenovo S10, Good Looks Netbook