2009,  Lenovo released two paragraph mini notebook IdeaPad S9、S10, This marked lenovo official involved in the mini laptop market. Lenovo’s designed this new super -lighted, super-small size “Netbook” products can be easily satisfy the network interconnection, email, video entertainment applications, Meet the user’s basic application requirements, is the user’s first choice. Lenovo also plans to promote students and education workers the ‘netbook ’ Concept products. Only one inch thick, less than two pounds IdeaPad S10 S9, Is the typical ultralight ultra-thin netbook products.

Build and Design

First we see lenovo Ideapad S10 overall appearance. Its A surface with asus  EEE PC 900  (asus eee pc 1000he battery ) in materials, Using a pearl white color, clarity, colour and lustre downy and bright, Currently, we have sky blue pearly white, lovely powder, ruby red, and cool of dazzle black for the user choice.

As most of the brand, lenovo S10 has lenovo’s classic appearance. Rough texture of the black surface, Lenovo Logo in one corner mark. Though external surfaces to leave some fingerprints, but unlike Eee PC 1000H that, like a fingerprint harvesters. 1.1 kilograms of weight, makes it very lightweight compact, Eee PC than 1.6 kilogram of 1000H to light many. This can let you easily let it in your backpack.

Lenovo IdeaPad S10 installed a genuine Windows XP operating system, according to operate with the use of completely before habits.

Layout

Although equipment volume very thin, lenovo Ideapad S10 interface in number and layout, are  similar to other laptop. 2 USB2.0, 1 SD/skillfully built-in card reader, one VGA video output interface and 1 LAN interface.

Lenovo Ideapad S10 adopted more energy-saving LED backlighting, which extended lenovo s10 battery screen using time, also greatly promoted display effect. Design lasted lenovo Y series design style, speakers also design, in which the left in order to design, lights, battery power instructions condition, and wireless networks. From left to right left interface is as follows: the mouth, heat dissipation power interfaces, VGA output interface, card reader, USB interface. Heat in this side draught design for the right hand the mouse operate won’t produce any influence.

The right interface in order from left to right: computers lock, RJ – 45 network interface, 1 USB interface, audio input/output port, Express interface. Look from layout, such interface design is really quite good, convenient operation, only 2 USB interface slightly dowdy.

Operating experience

Lenovo Ideapad S10 keyboard, editor  expectations the similar size of HP2133 92% standard keyboard did not use. In order to let users get the more comfortable, more natural use experience, lenovo designed only standard keyboard 85% big full size keyboard application of high tactility of keyboard, feel is not bad. Ideapad S10 shortcuts design is very concise, only one power switch, one key reply and network switch, and a light in order from left to right, Num lock for the Caps lock, hard disk operation indicator.

Touch panels board for grinding material, feel good, and also provides touchpad area, scroll up and down below touchpad two auxiliary key relative curt many, feel quite ordinary , Lenovo Ideapad keyboard input, the area of the S10 is very limited, its about 85% size keyboard dimensions of the standard keyboard, like the author such a trial, not fat fingers, fast and correctly striking the keyboard input but also not easy, often cause mistake. Especially smaller, keyboard design direction according to rise compare laborious, of course, as long as you get used to the problem is not big, the keyboard is very good in feel.

Lenovo Ideapad S10 sound well two stereo speakers at the front, but set small notebooks are unavoidable meet the volume too small drawbacks, need external subwoofers or headset to get better sound.

We choose 720P hd ” GTA” and 1080P hd ” Cafes fe cat”, broadcast on the whole process of soft decoding N270 processors use. Lenovo Ideapad S10 can see, 720P playback to smoothly “grand theft auto”, audio-visual also can synchronization, CPU occupancy rate always maintain, if again in about 49% function at the same time other software word is very hard. Come again try 1080P ” Cafes fe cat ” curry phillips, not only ate 100% CPU energy, also has appeared obviously card frame phenomenon, broadcast process audio-visual also appears not synchronous, incompetent 1080P playback.

Configuration

lenovo ideapad s10 battery is 3-cell 11.1 V 2800ma, batteries testing time is 2 hours 15 minutes, seems to want to enjoy a long standby time will launch more such lenovo the battery capacity to extend time. However, as we’ve said in the past when reviewing other netbooks, these tiny laptops would make excellent mobile companions if they just had an option for a 6-cell or 8-cell battery for all-day use. In any case, lowering the screen brightness and turning off the wireless card should provide enough battery life for prolonged use with the 3-cell battery.

Lenovo Ideapad S10 adopted 160G west several hard disk, on-board 512MB memory, and with standard 512MB, add up 1G memory.

Lenovo Ideapad S10 945GME chipset, using Intel GPU was carrying GMA950 display chip. This type of memory is the display chip 8MB 64bit bitwidth, manifested , The CPU is laptop component part in one part of the largest heat. Lenovo Ideapad S10 equipped with Atom N270 processor is also praise highly of low power, low heat during test, lenovo Ideapad S10 heat control of general, use more than a hour after clavier surface more hot.

Lenovo Ideapad S10 performance testing is not the key, because for assessments of a super mobile portable so it can cope with the laptop, and performance of the conventional most basic system operating and office entertainment applications have very satisfied, we can’t expect it and very outstanding performance, Atom N270 processor performance actually long before we had in the test results, the maximum performance was less than half the M530 cy young single-core Atom processor, with KuRui N270 processor to keep the two dual-core instruction set compatible and support hyper-threading processing.

Pros

Small and light

Easy to use

Very well built and durable

Easy to upgrade RAM, and hard drive

Comes with Bluetooth

ExpressCard slot offers extra expansion options

Cons

Gets a little hot

White plastics give this serious computer a “toy-like” appearance

Only two USB ports

3-cell battery is nice, 6-cell battery would be better

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