Posts Tagged ‘lenovo’

Lenovo Ideapad S10-3t Reviewed

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

The Wall Street Journal reviewed Lenovo’s touchscreen netbook, otherwise called a “tablet” since Apple popularised the term with its iPad product.  Verdict?  It’s a little slow, and I guess the reviewer doesn’t have a lot of experience reviewing netbooks nor anything powered by an Intel Atom processor!  Overall however, they liked the multi-touch features of the touchscreen, although they complained that the screen was overly glossy for watching videos, especially in a brightly lit environment; not surprising as this is a feature of new netbooks nowadays, and which, for the record, I hate – give me back my matte screens anytime!

Click here for the short review.

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Lenovo S10-2 With Built In 3G

Friday, February 26th, 2010

While walking around rather aimlessly today in PJ’s DigitalMall, I stumbled across a netbook with built in 3G connectivity, a rarity indeed in Malaysia.  Another rarity was its price – only RM 1,399.  But you have to live with older specifications though – it’s only got an Intel Atom N280 processor running at 1.66GHz, 1GB RAM, 160GB hard disk.  As usual, it comes with the other “usual suspects” – WiFi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, webcam, 6 cell battery and Windows XP Home SP3.

You have to remember that newer models with a newer processor (the Intel Atom N450 at 1.66GHz), larger hard disk and sometimes more RAM is only selling at RM 1,299.  So, you’re effectively paying more than a RM 100 premium for built in 3G connectivity, but if you ask me, this is a small price to pay because the performance differential between the older N280 and newer N450 processors is very minimal.

Leave a comment if you want to know where it’s sold.  Sorry, no pictures – but it’s the same as the S10-2 with only an embedded 3G modem thrown in, which is internal anyway, so there’s no external changes!

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Lenovo S10-3t Reviewed

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

The Lenovo S10-3t is Lenovo’s first netbook tablet offering.  It has gone on sale in Malaysia at a price of RM 1,899.  Not cheap by netbook standards, but touchscreen technology isn’t cheap.  The laptopmag website reviewed the tablet recently, and overall, found it to be rather appealing, except for the touchpad and integrated touchpad buttons.  While the claimed battery life was nowhere near achieved, it still ran for a very respectable 7 hours, which is certainly longer than most netbooks out there.

While I wouldn’t pay a premium of RM 600 for a touchscreen, you may, depending on your usage scenario.  I’ve tried tablets before, and without a regular use case scenario, the feature quickly becomes a gimmick and soon you’ll be wishing you saved that premium to spend on some other more useful netbook peripheral instead!

Click here for the review.

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The State Of The Tablet

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Here’s a couple of nice articles explaining the state of the tablet computing offerings from various vendors in light of the products announced at the Consumer Electronics Show and the announcement of the Apple iPad.  It makes for some light reading and you may even discover a thing or two you didn’t know about the new tablets.

Click here for Gizmodo’s comprehensive coverage and here for another article that discusses the HP Slate vs the Apple iPad in more detail.

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The Lenovo Ideapad S10-3t Unboxed

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Are you one to get off on unboxing videos?  Looking for a tablet?  Your prayers are answered then!  Here’s an unboxing video from the netbooknews website where the reviewer rambles on for quite a bit, fondling and caressing almost every inch of the device.  I don’t like the battery design – although I know it’s a high capacity battery of 6-8 cells, it really adds to the length of the device, adding almost 2 inches, by my rough estimate.  I would prefer one that is bulky at the bottom, raising the netbook a little, for better airflow.

The S10-3t is a tablet of course – that’s what that “t” in the model number refers to – and it’s amongst the first 10 inch touchscreen tablets from a major manufacturer.  It supports multitouch and comes with Windows 7 Home Premium, at least for the version sold in Germany – but the one on sale here only comes with Windows 7 Starter, which, plainly, sucks.  The other thing I didn’t quite fancy was the white colour keyboard, and the fact that it is not a “chiclet” or “isolated” or “island” design.  That white colour will quickly turn beige-ish, then yellow-ish, then brown-ish and then morph into some colour yet named.  But that’s just me; some people do get off on white.

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