It’s Windows 7 launch day… and that means many of those pretty little netbooks and notebooks I told you about the other day that come preloaded with Windows 7 are now shipping. I placed an order for an Acer Aspire Timeline AS181T to review and it should ship in a few days. But I’ve already seen evidence that 10 inch…

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The Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 is Lenovo’s second foray into the netbook space. You could probably figure that out from the name alone. While the IdeaPad S10 had some interesting features that you won’t find on every netbook, including an ExpressCard, the IdeaPad S10-2 is pretty much standard netbook fare with the usual netbook specs. On the bright side, it does…

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Lenovo recently unveiled a new version of the IdeaPad S10-2 netbook with a 10.2 inch, 1280 x 720 pixel HD display, and Sascha from Netbook News got a chance to check it out in person at IFA in Berlin. No real surprises to report. The netbook is pretty much identical to the lower resolution in most respects, but you can…

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I’m about to pack up the Samsung Go netbook which I recently reviewed. But before it goes, I couldn’t help but take the opportunity to photograph all 7 mini-laptops I’ve had sitting on my desk for the last few days. If you’ve been reading the site, you’ve already seen most of these little guys. But you probably haven’t ever seen…

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[/caption] A few months back there was a rumor going around that the Lenovo Ideapad S10-2 would eventually be available with a higher resolution 1280 x 720 pixel display. And it looks like eventually means today, because the netbook is available from a number of retailers in Germany with the high resolution display for about 349 Euros (about $499 US)….

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As I mentioned the other day, I have a whole lot of mini-laptops sitting on my desk at the moment. So I decided that today would be as good a time as any to do a little keyboard face-off. I’d already kind of decided that of the netbooks I’m using this week the Samsung Go (shown in the bottom of…

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Yeah, I’ve got a backlog of netbooks to review. The next week or two should be fun. I’d like to thank Samsung, Gigabyte, and Lenovo for sending me these models to review. The little guy in the back of the second row is my Asus Eee PC 1000H. That’s right, I’ve actually managed to hang onto the same netbook for…

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I decided to give the facial recognition software on the Lenovo Ideapad S12 a try this afternoon, and it seems to work quite nicely. I was able to scan my face using the Windows utility by walking through the setup utility. Once it had my face scanned, I logged out of my computer and was able to login just by…

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[/caption] The Eee PC T91 isn’t just the first touchscreen netbook from Asus. It’s also the company’s smallest netbook to date. While it sports an 8.9 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel touchscreen display, the T91 is actually a little smaller than the first generation Eee PC 701, measuring just 8.9″ x 6.5″ x 1.1″ and weighing just about 2 pounds….

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The two latest members of the Lenovo IdeaPad S-series have a few things in common. They both have 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processors, integrated GMA950 graphics, 1GB of RAM, 160GB hard drives, Windows XP, and a version of the Splashtop quick-start software. But there’s one big difference between the two laptops… and I do mean big. While the S10-2 sports…

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A friendly FedEx guy just rang my doorbell and dropped off a package from Lenovo containing an IdeaPad S10-2 and an IdeaPad S12. Lenovo’s been kind enough to let me borrow these little guys for a few days to put them through the paces. My first impression is that they’re both solidly built little laptops. The S10-2 has a 10…

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Netbook Philippines member ranns posted some of the first unboxing photos of the Lenovo Ideapad S10-2 a few weeks ago. Now he’s gone a few steps further and created one of the first tutorials for adding an internal 3G modem to the netbook. Lenovo is expected to release a version of the S10-2 with an integrated 3G modem in the…

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