Lenovo S10

Review of the Lenovo S10 netbook

Lenovo's IdeaPad S10 Netbook was announced way back on 4 August 2008, but only started shipping in late September. It was a late-comer to the netbook party. Not last and not least.

Lenovo is the new name for IBM, who have been making brilliant business quality laptops and computers for longer than you've been alive (probably!).

Our review unit had an Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM and a standard 5,400rpm 160GB hard drive. Reasonably standard fare in the world of netbooks. It comes with a 10" screen and Windows XP. It is, to be fair, a proper mini-laptop.

In the way we like the Toshiba NB100, we think the business styling of this netbooks is spot on. Its slightly thinner than the ASUS EEE PC 1000, and slightly lighter. The keyboard is almost full size, which makes typing much easier than on smaller 8.9" screen netbooks.

Similarities with Lenovo business laptops though ends with the battery life. We managed about 2.5 hours on our vigorous testing. You'd get about 3-3.5 with normal email and surfing though.

It comes will all the usual connections (3xusb, bluetooth, wireless g) but also features and expresscard slot.

Overall, we think this netbook is a decent quality netbook, which only suffers from half decent battery life. Everything is not too bad at all!.

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