Plenty of shops around the ‘net are offering discounts on a handful of netbooks, but Lenovo is going a step further. Right now, you can pick up any S10, S12, or Ideapad U series at a 15% discount. Lenovo is calling it an “Employee Pricing Event,” but the bottom line is you’ll be saving a good deal of cash. On…
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There must be a run on red paint or something. Because Lenovo had decided to drop the price of the white version of the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook to $399. But the company is still charging $439 for the red model. If you visit the Lenovo order page right now, red and white are the only available options. And the…
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When some people get a new computer, the first thing they do is install their favorite applications, tweak the operating system, or even replace Windows with Linux or OS X. Others? They rip it apart to see what’s on the insides. And that’s what Liliputing reader (and co-designer of our logo) Tommy Yoo did with the Lenovo IdeaPad S10. Lenovo’s…
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Lenovo is apparently pushing back its estimated ship date for the IdeaPad S10 laptop – by a full two months. When I ordered the netbook a few weeks ago Lenovo said it would ship on September 9th. But after spending much of yesterday hitting refresh on the order status page I saw no movement. When I checked again this morning,…
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Lenovo still says my IdeaPad S10 has an estimated ship date of today, but I have no idea when it’ll be arriving at my door. However the S10 does seem to be starting to make the rounds. Chinese language IT168 got their hands on one today and posted the unboxing photos to prove it. There’s nothing too surprising in the…
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Just over a week after launching a product page for the IdeaPad S10 mini-laptop, Lenovo has removed the order button. When you visit the S10 page now, you can find all sorts of information about the laptop, but you cannot place an order. The move isn’t particularly surprising. Customers who placed orders early on August 19th received notifications letting them…
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While I’m still waiting patiently for the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 I ordered yesterday to arrive, Joanna Stern at Laptop Magazine got to play with one for about 45 minutes at the IDF conference in San Francisco yesterday. (I’m pretty sure those hands in the picture belong to the Lenovo rep and not Joanna). Her first impressions? The nearly full-sized keyboard…
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The folks at Notebooks.com got some alone time with the 9 inch version of the new Lenovo netbook. While Xavier accidentally refers to the computer as the IdeaPad S10, I believe this version will actually be known as the IdeaPad S9. That’s assuming that the S10 and S9 monikers have anything at all to do with screen size, which they…
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There’s a bit more info about the upcoming Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook. Laptop Magazine has a ton of details and a ton of pictures. First up, the operating system: Lenovo plans to ship the computer with Windows XP in the US, but the company will make a version with Linpus Linux Lite available elsewhere. Second, we now have dimensions and…
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