Comments on: Review: Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 10-inch netbook

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Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:20:27 +0000

[...] mid-April.Cool, but why?This is a great progression for the S Series netbooks. I reviewed the IdeaPad S10-2, the 12-inch S12 and have an S10-3 in the labs now. They’re all great machines and the S10-3 [...]

By: Zachary

Zachary — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:49:34 +0000

The Broadcom Card in the S10-2 is the same as the Dell Mini 9. Ubuntu has drivers for it and I’ve never had problems with it.

By: John Hobbes

John Hobbes — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:25:15 +0000

If your ThinkPad card is a Mini PCI Express rather than a Mini PCI card, then it should work. As long as the S10/S10-2 BIOS will recognize the card you're good. Some older ThinkPads locked out non-OEM wireless cards, but I highly doubt that is the case with a bottom-barrel consumer netbook.

By: none

none — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:17:16 +0000

Something occurs to me, I have a spare Lenovo Thinkpad wifi a/b/g mini-PCI card around here someplace. Does anyone think it likely that I could replace the Broadcom card in either the S10 or S10-2 with the Lenovo card? Broadcom is a deal breaker because there is no linux support for it.

I see some cheap deals on S10′s and am sort of thinking of getting one in preference to the S10-2, because of the expresscard slot (plug in an e-sata card and high capacity external HDD) and the easy availability of cheap extended capacity batteries (for example from dealextreme). I saw some indications that the S10 and S10-2 use the same batteries, but that doesn’t seem to actually be the case.

By: none

none — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:13:17 +0000

Thanks John. I have a 9″ Asus EEE and its keyboard is near-unusable, but I tried an officemate’s 10″ model yesterday and it was a heck of a lot better. So the S10-2 has gotten more interesting. Wasn’t a version with more screen resolution coming?

I’m not sure what the issue is with the cpu speed. My guess is that the 1.6ghz Atom cpu is at least as fast as the 1.2ghz Pentium M in my X40, which was my fastest computer for several years (now I have a T61). It has to be the software that’s slowing things down. My main surfing machine til very recently was an A22p with a 1ghz processor and 512mb of ram, and I never had problems opening multiple tabs.

Any idea what resolution external monitor you can use with the VGA port? Is there still a 9-cell battery available like there was for the S10? Thanks.