The popular XBMC media player application may have started its life as Xbox Media Center, running on the original Xbox game console with an Intel Pentium II chip. But today XBMC can run on a wide range of systems, with builds to run as an app on Windows, Mac, or Linux computers or on the Apple TV.  So it should…

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The Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t is a 10 inch netbook with a touchscreen display that you can fold down over the keyboard for use in tablet mode. It has a capacitive touchscreen display which means you can navigate by pressing your fingertip against the screen. The computer won’t recognize input from a stylus. Like most netbooks, the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t has…

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The Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t is a 10 inch convertible tablet style netbook. Like a typical netbook it features a nearly full-sized QWERTY keyboard. But like a tablet PC (or iPad), it has a touchscreen display. What makes it somewhat special is the fact that you can rotate the display 180 degrees and fold it down over the keyboard to hold…

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The IdeaPad S10-3t is the first 10 inch convertible tablet style netbook from Lenovo. The Wall Street Journal reviewed the netbook recently, but you could kind of tell that the reviewer hadn’t spent a lot of time using netbooks. Now Engadget’s Joanna Stern has given the S10-3t a go, and there are few people that have as much time playing…

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While there’s a lot of buzz around the upcoming iPad and dozens of other internet slates, tablet PCs have been around for nearly a decade. The difference is that most Windows-based tablets available today feature full sized keyboards and swivels that let you fold the touchscreen down over the keyboard for use in tablet mode. The iPad is a touchscreen-only…

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The Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t is one of a handful of netbooks with a touchscreen display and swivel allowing you to fold the screen over the keyboard and hold the computer like a tablet. With a starting price of $549, it’s one of the cheapest convertible tablets around, and at least until the Asus Eee PC T101MT is released, it’s the…

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The Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t convertible touchscreen tablet-style netbook has a base price of $549 at Lenovo.com. But Newegg has the netbook in stock for just under $500 plus $5 for shipping within the continental US. As an added bonus, this model has an 8 cell battery while the version on sale through Lenovo’s web site has a 4 cell battery….

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The Ideapad S10-3t is the first tablet-style netbook from Lenovo. The $549 laptop features a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive and runs Windows 7 Starter. Oh yeah, and it has a 10. 1 inch touchscreen display that you can fold over the keyboard for use in tablet mode. The notebook recently began shipping,…

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Well, that was quick. A few days after I speculated that the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t could be the first netbook to ship with a 1.83GHz Intel Atom N470 processor, Lenovo has started taking orders for the N470-equipped model of the tablet-style netbook. This version will set you back $649, but you get more than just a faster processor. You also…

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Intel hasn’t officially launched the 1.83GHz Intel Atom N470 Pine Trail chip yet. All of the new Pine Trail netbooks launched over the past few weeks have been outfitted with 1.66GHz Atom N450 processors instead. But I’ve seen a number of product listings and spec sheets that mention the faster chip. And now a little sleuthing has led me to…

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Another day, another set of recently announced netbooks that are now available for order. The HP Mini 210 and the MSI Wind U135 are both ready to go. Both of these netbooks run Windows 7 Starter Edition and have 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 Pine Trail processors. The Compaq Mini CQ10 (which I think may be the same as the Compaq…

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Sure, CES is all about introducing new products, not necessarily announcing retail availability. Many of the doohickeys on display in Vegas this week won’t be available for weeks, months, or maybe ever. But here’s a short roundup of recently announced products that are already available for purchase or pre-order: Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3 netbook – Purchase from Lenovo for $369 and…

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