Lenovo Ideapad S10 10.2-Inch Netbook

Lenovo Ideapad S10 10.2-Inch Netbook is a mobile laptops designed for people on the go who do not want to sacrifice performance for portability. You get the best of two worlds with S10. You get what you would expect to get with a top notebook. Decent CPU power, plenty of space to store your ideas, and a device that weighs than some college books. The price is is about $380, which makes this affordable to most college students and small businesses. Let’s see what S10 has to offer in detail:

Lenovo S10 Features

• Weight: S10 is super portable. It weighs only 2.4, and it’s only 1.04 inch thick. Easier to carry around than some books.
• Screen: the 10.2 inch size LED back light screen provides you with enough screen real estate to get your work done, and light makes it easier to read documents.
• CPU: it will be a matter of time before we see 2.0GHz netbooks, but at 1.66GHz S10 is close enough.
• Battery: the 3 Cell Lithium-Ion battery will get you about 3 hours of us under normal condition. The battery make last longer depending on what you use S10 for.
• Size (LWH): 7.2 inches, 9.85 inches, 1.08 inches

Lenovo S10 is a good netbook for folks who are looking for performance but don’t want to break their budget. I would like to see more battery life. Top netbooks last for 7-9 hours of use, so getting 3 hours out of S10 is not ideal. The connectivity features also leave something to be desired. Wireless G is the bare minimum needed to get Internet work done properly these days, and it would’ve been better if S10 came with a wireless N adapter.

Verdict: B.

Samsung NC10-11GP 10.2-Inch Netbook

The NC10 mini notebook by Samsung is ideal for users who don’t want to break the bank and at the same time want to get their hands on a piece of hardware that allows them to consume data on the Internet. NC10-11GP is attractive and very portable yet pack the power needed to get business or college work done. Here is what you get with this laptop:

• Screen: the screen is 10.2-inch Wide and comes with 1024 x 600 WSVGA for screen resolution. Big enough to be comfortable on the eye and small enough to not take away from this netbook’s portability.
• CPU: Samsung NC10-11GP comes equipped with Intel Atom processor N270, 1.6 GHz, 533 MHz Front Side Bus, 512 KB Level 2 Cache, giving you enough power to consume data on the Internet.
• Hard Drive: 160 GB, 2.5-inch HD, 1 GB DDR2 800 MHz. More than enough for a mobile user, though I would like to see them increase it to 250 or 300 GB.
• Connectivity: 802.11 b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, 10/100 BaseTX LAN. It would be great if wireless N was suggested but a lot of networks around the nation are wireless g. And you can still connect to N networks.
• Battery: 6-Cell Lithium Ion lasts 8 hours for you, which is long enough to get some real work done without an adapter being needed.
• Weight: only 2.8. Ultra portable.

This netbook comes with Genuine Microsoft XP Home with Service Pack 3, a 1.3 Mega Pixel webcam, a Kensington Key Lock, and 1 year standard parts and labor. The device is in the $400, but still more affordable than fully-fledged laptops. Samsung NC10-11GP 10.2-Inch Netbook has some nice features. I would have loved to see backlit keyboard with this netbook. But overall, the power and portability of this netbook makes it attractive to anyone who lives a mobile way of life.