Yet another Lenovo IdeaPad S10 video

By now you’ve probably seen all the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 pictures and videos you need to see to decide whether this is the mini-notebook for you. But hey, here’s one more.

Notebooks.com caught up with a Lenovo rep at the Intel Developer’s Forum in San Francisco yesterday and shot this little demo video. You get to see the S10 from all angles, and hear a few things you already knew, like the fact that the S10 will be available with Windows XP Home or Linux, but not Windows Vista or Windows XP Pro. At least not for now. Of course, if you’re in the US, Linux doesn’t appear to be an option at the moment either.

Posted on Thursday, August 21st, 2008, 1:52 pm by Brad Linder

artrafael

I have a feeling the Lenovo rep's comment regarding the availability of Linux may have been intended for the global marketplace rather than for the U.S. He also misstated that the two jacks on the side were for audio and *video* I/O, so I'm not taking everything he said as gospel.

On the other hand, it's still possible Lenovo may offer the Linux version in the U.S. at a later date. Their press announcement for the S10 mentioned a starting price of $399, but the cheapest model for sale on their site is $429 with XP. I'm thinking maybe they will be offering the Linux model at $399?
artrafael

Scratch that second paragraph above… Just re-read the Lenovo press release on the S10 and it only mentioned XP. Out of curiosity, I checked Lenovo's Hong Kong site and it shows both the S9 and S10 models and they come with Linux and XP respectively. Since the S9 won't be marketed in the U.S., we won't be seeing a Linux version of the IdeaPad S series here in the foreseeable future.
Sarah

“Hi, I'm John from Marketing! I don't really know what I'm talking about, but I kinda read the spec sheet so I'm going to quote randomly from that.”

He revealed a couple of interesting things though. It sounds as if, RAM-wise, 512MB is soldered to the motherboard with a single slot available for upgrades. Presumably this will be filled with a 512MB module in the “1GB” version which would have to be discarded by anyone intending to take their S9/10 up to the full 1.5GB. So it would make more sense for upgraders to go for the “512MB” version with the (presumably) empty slot.
Sarah

“Hi, I'm John from Marketing! I don't really know what I'm talking about, but I kinda read the spec sheet so I'm going to quote randomly from that.”

He revealed a couple of interesting things though. It sounds as if, RAM-wise, 512MB is soldered to the motherboard with a single slot available for upgrades. Presumably this will be filled with a 512MB module in the “1GB” version which would have to be discarded by anyone intending to take their S9/10 up to the full 1.5GB. So it would make more sense for upgraders to go for the “512MB” version with the (presumably) empty slot.
Sarah

“Hi, I'm John from Marketing! I don't really know what I'm talking about, but I kinda read the spec sheet so I'm going to quote randomly from that.”

He revealed a couple of interesting things though. It sounds as if, RAM-wise, 512MB is soldered to the motherboard with a single slot available for upgrades. Presumably this will be filled with a 512MB module in the “1GB” version which would have to be discarded by anyone intending to take their S9/10 up to the full 1.5GB. So it would make more sense for upgraders to go for the “512MB” version with the (presumably) empty slot.

Yet another Lenovo IdeaPad S10 video

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