Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 Netbook Review
Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 Netbook was one of the most popular budget mini notebooks with good reason: the business-friendly tools, ExpressCard slot, and all the reasonable price made it a good option for consumers and corporate users.
When we modified the S10, the addition of a six-cell battery complain visited our firm over the short battery life from the previous version. Now, a further review is available, it replaces S10 is the S10-2. This new model has some physical changes – most good, some bad – but retains the same general components at a reduced price. It is a better deal than the previous models, but you have to live without an essential characteristic.
As far as the main body goes, the S10-2 is thin, so thin, in fact, that we would be hard-pressed, slightly thinner want. However, while the Netbook closes into a neat package, the six-cell battery protrudes from the back and hangs from the rear riser joint as a laptop that can not be removed. Maybe it’s the new slim netbook, but the hanging battery seems intrusive. We are pleased that the battery into the case to see to here, in future versions – it’s just unsightly and also comes in the way of packing the Netbook flat in sleeves or cases. It does, however, make for a nice stand on the desk.
With a matte-black interior and keyboard, a brilliant 10.2-inch screen and a smudge-collecting shiny black exterior with a black-on-black polka-dot pattern, the design feels a little lost between companies and consumers. It looks a little more like an Acer or Asus as a “Pro Model” netbook, if we are such a term can be used.

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The keyboard is comfortable to respond and has a good trip, but the feeling is still shrunken-down from a full-size keyboard experience. The multi-touch trackpad Synaptics reasonable and has an average keyboard underneath, but always finger scrolling to work is a frustrating exercise. While the keyboard with full-size Shift keys, and a larger, broader range of tapered key has been improved, it still does not approach the comfort of a ThinkPad keyboard, or the HP Mini 110 is full-size keys.
A quick-start button above the keyboard launches Linux-based Splashtop instant-on OS, when it is pressed when the device is turned off. The functional Web browser, music limited player, photo viewer, flash-based game player and Skype instant messaging options are decent, but you take the time to boot (though less than booting XP). We would prefer to use XP in standby mode and only continue if necessary. Splashtop, if it does not run, can run the QS-key as a hotkey for applications in Windows XP to be adjusted.
The 10.2-inch widescreen display has a 1024-x600 pixel native resolution, which is for 10-inch netbooks standard. The new glossy screen looks stylish, but prefers light much more than the S10′s. Video clips, including 720p, look clean and bright, though. Stereo speakers are at the bottom of the S10-2 position, sound design, but they sound muffled due to their positioning. They are sufficient for basic listening, but we recommend headphones.
One thing that the S10 was one standout, the inclusion of an ExpressCard 34 slot. It is sad omitted from the S10-2′s connection options. Perhaps room had to be made to account for the thinner size, but took extra connectivity is never a good thing. Three USB 2.0 ports are your only options for the connection without it. This means it is difficult to connect a 3G modem, for example. The rest of the S10-2-port options are Netbook default if nothing to write home. We hope in the future, Lenovo makes the things around, away by connection instead.

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The Lenovo S10-2 performance on our benchmark tests was average, mainly because they have the same Atom N270, that to do almost all netbooks. Some processors like the AMD Via, lead more quickly, but the S10-2 is not for its category vs.. For e-mail, instant messaging, office documents, and basic media playback, the S10-2 works very well. Facial recognition security software and OneKey backup add some business-friendly applications to the package.


















