Yes, the name of this site is thinkpads.com, but we try to share the love with the rest of Lenovo’s products too. And this is really cool, so it makes the cut.
A lovely fellow over at the Brain Dump blog just completed a screen transplant on his Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook. He used a kit available from Fido Hub that adds resistive touch capabilities and should fit most 10.2″ netbooks. He writes in detail about the install process and shares some helpful tips for anyone else who might want to attempt the upgrade. Unfortunately there were no juicy install pics, but if you do some searching there are others who have done the same upgrade on other netbooks.
What kind of modding have our dear readers done on their notebooks, Lenovo or otherwise?
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I’m the one who did the install and posted the article on Brain Dump. I didn’t post any pics simply because it was late and I was tired. I just wanted to get the thing done! Plus, there are plenty of install pics in the tutorial for installing on a Samsung NC10 over at netbookmag.com. Netbookmag.com is where I found out about these fidohub kits.
If any of your readers are going to do this upgrade on their own, make sure they order the correct kit for their netbook. There are 8 kits (if I remember correctly) on the fidohub web site, but the Lenovo S10 kit isn’t listed. In order to find the S10 kit, I had to go to fidohub’s ebay store (seller name is fidohub). The reason you need the specific kit for your netbook is that each kit comes with pre-made cables designed for whatever propietary USB headers you have on your system board. For instance, I originally ordered the NC10 kit thinking I could cram it in my S10, but the cables weren’t the right kind and I didn’t feel like doing complicated pin-out mapping and soldering to get it to work.
I may post a video of the touch screen in action later. Right now, I’m removing OS X from my netbook and putting XP back on it to test the touchscreen under Windows.
Great thanks!
I just posted a quick video of the touch screen in action, including launching Garmin’s Mobile PC software for navigation. You can check it out on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/v/NTTaIW-wQQM
Is this adding extra usb ports inside of the casing?
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