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LENOVO IDEAPAD S12 – Netbook Review

Posted on December 9th, 2009 | by admin

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Just when people thought that the Asus Eee series had an insurmountable lead, Lenovo came out with a netbook that not only had a more comfortable keyboard and larger screen size, but it sold it at very low prices. It is no wonder that the Lenovo IdeaPad S12 was included in the Top 5 Netbooks for 2009.

The IdeaPad S12 has the Atom N270 for its processor at 1.6 GHz. It is also the very first netbook to include VIA’s Nano mobile processor as an option. The Via Nano processor has been getting good reviews lately in its battle with its Atom counterpart. The good news doesn’t stop here, the S12 is expected to feature NVIDIA’s Ion technology.

Let’s start looking at why the IdeaPad was considered as one of the best.

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Lenovo Ideapad S10 – Netbook review

Posted on December 8th, 2009 | by admin

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Lenovo wanted to cash in on this netbook boom so it came out with the IdeaPad S10. It used EeePC as its benchmark leading some to say that the IdeaPad S10 was an EeePC killer.

Two years ago, the Asus EeePC subnotebook entered the market. Immediately, buyers were attracted because of its low price, light weight, solid-state drive and Linux OS. Because of this, Asus EeePC’s were selling like hotcakes. Competitors had no other choice except to manufacture and market their own budget-priced subnotebooks.

As a result, the market was suddenly flooded with netbooks. They were small, light and inexpensive. The features were pretty basic and it allowed users to do general computing, web surfing and running rich Internet applications.

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