There are two types of people who regularly need to disassemble laptops: hackers and service technicians. While Lenovo’s service training site for the IdeaPad S10e netbook is geared toward the latter, it’s choc full of information that could be helfpul to anyone looking to upgrade the wireless card, hard drive, or other internal components of this 10 inch netbook. Not…

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The Lenovo Ideapad S10e is designed for educational markets, but it also adds a few features that the original IdeaPad S10 lacked. For one thing, it comes with the Splashtop “quick start” software preloaded. This provides quick access to Firefox, Skype, and a few other apps. I got a chance to play with a few IdeaPad’s running Splashtop and rival…

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The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook may have a starting price of $349, but you can pick up an IdeaPad S10e from Buy.com for just under $300. The two computers are pretty much the same. They sport a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, a 10.1 inch 1024 x 600 pixel display, 512MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive, 802.11b/g WiFi and…

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Sure, Asus may have promised to add the Splashtop “instant” on interface to every computer with an Asus motherboard. But it looks like Lenovo is going to beat Asus to the punch when it comes to adding Splashtop to netbooks. Today the company announed it’s working with DeviceVM, the company behind Splashtop to add the interface to the lenovo IdeaPad…

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