so we got here today a Lenovo yeah I should have checked with
more so we have a Lenovo Idea pad S10
here which is supposed to be the next big thing in subnotebooks so we are
going to open it up it features an Intel Atom Processor 512 Megs of RAM 80 gig
magnetic hard drive Windows XP a 10.2 in
LCD display and it comes in a box that is
rated for
2.55 no 25.5 pounds per inch of edge Crush so
that's very very impressive Lenovo thank
you inside we will find the Lenovo S10
subnotebook we find a wow that is a thick thick
instruction manual it's like really thick it's awesome see this
is what happens when I don't prep at all for things so then we've got our
accessory box which I'm going to assume has yes the power
adapter and a battery so not much in the way of accessories come with the S10 but
stay tuned we're going to open this baby up and have a
look so first impressions is it is a little bit on the heavier side for a
subnotebook including the three cell battery but it's also a little bit
bigger than most of the subn notes out there so we're going to take off the
plastic covering here which is um held
on by masking tape very classy and we're going to take off the little protective
plastic cover on the Lenovo logo which is very shiny and very nice the finish
on this is kind of a a matte black uh looks like it's going to be a bit of a
fingerprint magnet but again that would be a common theme for all of the
oh this is nice the inside has H kind of a
traditional IBM matte black finish to
the Keys and to the whole interior of the unit which has a bit of a sparkle to
it actually and we're going to take the screen protector off
here that is a very classy looking little subnote so there's actually
little chromed accents around the webcam as well as on the power button I'm in
and have a close look at this keyboard this is one of the better subnote
keyboards we've seen yet and I'm just
going to test it out really briefly here okay the one complaint right off the bat
first let me say it is not a multilingual keyboard so if you want an
englishon keyboard this will do it for you however in my opinion the shift key
on this side should be a little bit closer to the home row instead of having
an up Arrow there the left shift is quite comfortable and most of the other
keys are within comfortable reach including the enter key and the
backspace as well as tab caps lock anything else that you're going to
need so on the right side of the notebook we've got Express card
headphones microphone USB and Lan with a
Kensington lock and then on the other side of the
notebook we've got a DC in so that's for
your uh your wall adapter then you've got a VGA out an SD card and one more
USB port so the S10 does have one fewer
USB port than most of the other subnotebooks that I've seen it does have
some other advantages as well though such as the bottom plate from here you
can see that you can easily access both the RAM and the hard drive just by
taking out two screws it's much more user friendly than some of the other
subnotebooks out there and it'll make user upgrades theoretically a breeze
although it's not likely to win any prize for the best value or necessarily
even the best feature set the S10 is great for if you have a little bit more
money for your subnotebook and you want to look absolutely fabulous while you're
using it the style and the form is
unprecedented for the Lenovo S10 uh also
if you have any suggestions for future products or any topics you want to see
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