Lenovo have today launched their newest netbook, the IdeaPad S10e. It will have a starting price of £299 when it becomes available at the end of the month and can be purchased through Lenovo and Lenovo Business Partners.
The S10e features a 10.1 inch display, Intel Atom processor, up to 1.5GB RAM, either a 4GB SSD or a hard drive of up to 160GB. The netbook comes installed with either Novell SLED 10 Linux or Windows XP Home or Pro.
Lenovo’s S10e, weighing in at under 1.2kg, is aimed at consumers and business users, looking for a lightweight and mobile computing option.
Hot Hardware have posted up a short video giving an overview of the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook:
The video gives a positive review of the Ideapad but, it also shows how cramped the S10’s keyboard is, an obvious drawback with many netbooks until you ‘get used’ to using them. Read the rest of this entry »
After delaying the release of the IdeaPad S10 and removing the order button from their website, the order button is now back up. Lenovo are reporting to start shipping the S10 within 2 to 3 weeks.
Brad Linder has checked his order status page, but it is showing as a longer period than 2-3 weeks for shipping. Instead it says it won’t start shipping until 18th November. Currently the only model available is the white version, so if you’ve ordered the black version you may have to wait even longer.
The S9 has a 9 inch screen rather than the 10 inch of the S10. It has the same chassis as the S10 so it comes with a bezel around the edge of the screen. The S9 will retail at a lower starting price of about $340.
The cheapest S9 will likely come with Linux, 80GB hard drive and 512MB of RAM. The S9 will ship in Taiwan, with no plans of release in the US. No date has been set for when they’ll be released, but hopefully they won’t have the same problems as the US S10.
It seems that the Lenovo IdeaPad S10’s release date has possibly been delayed by two months. Customers that pre-ordered the S10 were expecting it to be released on the 9th September. However, some buyers have been tracking the status of their order and have noticed that the status was not updating throughout the day. In fact, the order status for pre-orders wasn’t updated by Lenovo until a day after the due release date. The status then showed an expected release date of November 18th.
It’s unclear as to why Lenovo waited until the 10th of September to update their customers but, they have managed to send out a few units to allow for reviews and photographs to be published. Unfortunately, it seems some customers are lacking in solid information as to when they should expect to get their hands on their new S10.
Chinese website IT168 have been fortunate enough to get the chance to actually unbox and photograph the new Lenovo s10 and they have posted those photographs for us all to see. The photographs have met with a mixed response, some are disappointed with the ‘unveiling’ which is disappointing for Lenovo but, the IdeaPad s10 has been billed as a Wind and Eee PC ‘beater’ so time will tell if it can live up to that hype.
The S10 they have comes with a 10.2 inch display and is powered by an Intel Atom CPU with 1GB of RAM, a 160Gb HDD and it runs Windows XP.
These pictures are just a sample - there are plenty more to be found at the source for those that wish to view them: IT168
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