If you want to get your hands on the Lenovo S10, Notebooks.com are holding a competition where you stand a chance of winning one. The competition seems to be US based, as the competition questions are based on Black Friday. To be entered into the competition, you need to answer one or both of the questions, with each answer being in a seperate comment.
You can only answer each question once, on whether your Black Friday was great, saying what you bought and how difficult it was to get the items, or if it sucked, with items listed that you couldn’t get.
A winner will be picked at random next Friday, December the 5th.
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.
There are pictures circulating on the internet currently that shows a Lenovo S10 sporting a 6 cell battery - something that Lenovo haven’t announced that they are making yet.
The images show the netbook and show that the battery is protruding from the rear of the unit just like 6 cell batteries do. We don’t think it’s a Lenovo battery and there is no firm details on where the battery came from or who is making/selling them. It could be a prototype possibly. Wherever it came from, it will hopefully be available to S10 owners soon and we will let you know as soon as we get more information on the battery and on whether it will be available officially from Lenovo worldwide.
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 »
With more and more tech geeks experimenting on loading netbooks with Apple’s OS X and have successfully done so, Apple should take the cue and come up with their own Apple Netbook. Unfortunately, the company seems to be not to keen on doing so but instead introduced a sub-$1000 MacBook recently.
Hence, OS X-loving tech geeks who wants the said OS on their netbooks are left with no recourse but to install the OS themselves. A couple of days ago, it was Dell’s Mini Inspiron 9 which get the OS X treatment. Now, here comes another one - the Lenovo S10 getting its own sweet OS X treatment.
Lenovo S10 owners who wants the OS X installed on their netbook should read this step-by-step instruction provided by Flung of Netbook Tech. Mind you, it doesn’t seem as easy as the one done with the Dell Mini Inspiron 9.
If you want to convince yourself, watch this video first of the Lenovo S10 running on OS X.
CompUSA have a great offer on the Lenovo S10. Firstly, it’s in stock. Only the white S10 is in stock on the Lenovo web site, but at CompUSA you can purchase both the white and pink models for immediate purchase. CompUSA are also selling the netbooks for $10 less than the Lenovo site.
Both models are available for $429.99 and have a 10.3 inch anti glare screen, 512MB RAM, 80GB hard drive and Intel Atom Processor 1.6GHz. The S10 also has a built in web cam, 3 cell battery, card reader and comes with Windows XP Home installed.
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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