Ideapad S10 netbook announced

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MGD_drinker · #1 Post by **MGD_drinker** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:51 am

Looks like Lenovo wants in on the netbook action.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2327025,00.asp

http://gizmodo.com/5032555/sneak-peek-l ... raportable

MGT · #2 Post by **MGT** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:49 am

That's not too surprising. Shame it doesn't have a TrackPoint though.

Clearly what's needed is a 'netbook' with the butteryfly keyboard and a TrackPoint. The touchpads and tiny keys are a real problem on most of these 'netbooks.'

Puppy · #3 Post by **Puppy** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:05 am

Yeah, missing trackpoint is another lost opportunity to offer something special.

qviri · #4 Post by **qviri** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:18 am

An opportunity wasted. Yet another exercise in mediocrity from a company that should be capable of so much more.

qviri · #5 Post by **qviri** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:28 pm

Not sure if this has been posted yet, some reasonably good pictures.

I can like the outside (in fact the front goes a long way to looking good), and would possibly begin to live with the keyboard (but please, please, please, drop the arrow keys a row, or do what Apple does and make them half-height, or something), but to add insult to the injury that is lack of trackpoint, the trackpad is pretty small and looks horribly off-center to the keyboard. I don't know if they tried to make it centred over the whole laptop width, or what, but look at this and tell me there isn't something wrong there.

#6 Post by **JaneL** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:16 pm

qviri wrote:to add insult to the injury that is lack of trackpoint,

It's not a ThinkPad. Why would you expect a TrackPoint?

FRiC · #7 Post by **FRiC** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:20 am

It has a centered touchpad! I can't believe they did that when everyone's complaining about the off-center screen on ThinkPads.

(Centered touchpads are bad.)

The Spirit of X21 · #8 Post by **The Spirit of X21** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:11 pm

nonny wrote:
qviri wrote:to add insult to the injury that is lack of trackpoint,
It's not a ThinkPad. Why would you expect a TrackPoint?

Seconded. Lenovo won't be sending a ThinkPad to fight this battle anytime soon. (I hope)

pxa270 · #9 Post by **pxa270** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:17 pm

Looks fantastic to me, mainly thanks to the very thin display bezel. It has a 10" screen like the MSI Wind, but it's smaller overall thanks to the thin bezel. The dimensions are almost the same as the Acer Aspire One, which only has a 8.9" screen because it has a thick bezel. In fact, think the Ideapad S10 looks a lot better than the X200, again due to the X200's stupid bezel.

Did I mention how much I hate thick bezels?

qviri · #10 Post by **qviri** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:15 pm

nonny wrote:It's not a ThinkPad. Why would you expect a TrackPoint?

s/expect/hope for/

Because it would make the laptop better.

While not costing any significant amount of money in either research or implementation.

From a distance, this almost looks like a younger brother to the 12" Powerbook G4. And I mean that as a compliment. Maybe it'll grow on me yet.

getsandy · #11 Post by **getsandy** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:31 pm

How about starting a totally new section for Ideapad S* series?

This is totally a new line of Netbook's from Lenovo & it is totally different from rest of Ideapad series.

Sandy

#12 Post by **JaneL** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:56 pm

qviri wrote:Because it would make the laptop better.

Well, I definitely agree with that! If I ran the world, ALL notebooks would have a TrackPoint, but, alas, I don't.

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