{"id":1303,"date":"2008-12-01T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/12\/why-lenovos-s10-seemed-like-a-good-ideapad-to-me.htm"},"modified":"2008-12-01T09:00:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T09:00:23","slug":"why-lenovos-s10-seemed-like-a-good-ideapad-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/12\/why-lenovos-s10-seemed-like-a-good-ideapad-to-me.htm","title":{"rendered":"Why Lenovo&#8217;s S10 seemed like a good idea(pad) to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try to keep my work and home life on different computers.  It doesn&#8217;t always work, but that&#8217;s the idea anyway.  The problem I find is that, every time I&#8217;m away from home (which is when I get most of my blogging done), I find myself carrying around two laptops and, even without any peripherals (power adapters, etc.), that&#8217;s 4.5kg of luggage.  Any sensible person would use an external hard disk for one of the workloads but&#8230; there you go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/lenovo-ideapad-s10.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lenovo IdeaPad S10\" \/>I&#8217;ve been watching developments with small form-factor PCs (so called &#8220;NetBooks&#8221;) for a while now and over the weekend I took the plunge.  Tomorrow morning I&#8217;m expecting a delivery of a Lenovo IdeaPad S10 to slip in my bag alongside the Fujitsu-Siemens S7210 that I use for work.<\/p>\n<p>So why did I choose the Lenovo?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In terms of build quality, my IBM ThinkPad is by far and away the best notebook PC I&#8217;ve ever had (better than the various Toshiba, Compaq, Dell and Fujitsu-Siemens units I&#8217;ve used &#8211; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/so-much-for-apples-legendary-build-quality.htm\">certainly better than my Apple MacBook<\/a>) &#8211; I&#8217;m hoping that Lenovo have continued that quality as they&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/12\/ibm-sells-its-pc-business.htm\">taken on the former IBM PC business<\/a> (the reviews I&#8217;ve read certainly indicate that they have).<\/li>\n<li>I want to use this NetBook with Windows 7 &#8211; and I know it can work (this is the model that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/exec\/ssinofsky\/\">Steven Sinofsky<\/a> showed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/pc-phone-and-web-how-microsoft-plans-to-build-the-next-generation-of-user-experiences.htm\">a keynote at Microsoft&#8217;s 2008 Professional Developers Conference<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/11\/microsoft-after-hours-the-sequel.htm\">I was impressed with Windows 7 running on Paul Foster&#8217;s Acer Aspire One<\/a>, but the keyboard is just too small for my fat fingers.<\/li>\n<li>The Lenovo S10 has a PC Express Card slot (so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/getting-vodafone-mobile-connect-and-windows-vista-to-play-nicely-together.htm\">it should work with my Vodafone 3G card<\/a> &#8211; and yes, I know I can get a USB version but I&#8217;d need to convince my employers of the need for an upgrade, which would not be an easy sell when they give me a perfectly good laptop with a PC Express Card slot to use&#8230;).<\/li>\n<li>I also seriously considered the Dell Mini 9 (especially when they mis-priced it on their website for \u00c2\u00a399 last week &#8211; incidentally, the resulting orders were not fulfilled) but I&#8217;m not convinced that using a pre-release operating system on a solid state hard drive is really a good idea &#8211; I could easily kill the drive within a few months.  Meanwhile, the Lenovo has a traditional 160GB hard disk and the 10.2&#8243; screen (rather than 9&#8243;) translates into more space for a larger keyboard without noticeably increasing the size of the computer (for those who still want a 9&#8243; model, Lenovo have announced an S9 but I&#8217;ve seen no sign of it in the UK yet).  Another option that I discounted was the Samsung NC10 &#8211; which has a better battery and one more USB port but no PC Express Card slot.<\/li>\n<li>The equivalent Asus and Acer models may be less expensive but the big names (IBM, Dell, HP as well as Samsung and Toshiba) are all reducing their prices &#8211; and by waiting for the reduction in the UK&#8217;s VAT rate to take effect the price was \u00c2\u00a3292.25 for the S10 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebuyer.com\/\">eBuyer<\/a> with free shipping (although I paid another tenner for next-day delivery).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure my sons will be amused when yet another computer appears on my desk (my wife may be slightly less so&#8230;) but I&#8217;m thinking of this as an early Christmas present to myself&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Further reading<\/h3>\n<p>Here are some of the posts that I found useful before deciding to buy this PC:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/apcmag.com\/first_look_lenovo_ideapad_s10_netbook.htm\">APC Mag first look: Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.laptopmag.com\/lenovo-enters-the-mini-notebook-market-with-the-ideapad-s10\">Lenovo enters the mini-notebook market with the IdeaPad S10<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.laptopmag.com\/windows-7-on-netbooks\">Windows 7 light enough for netbooks, Lenovo S10 specifically<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/journals\/microsoft.ars\/2008\/10\/28\/arspdc-steven-sinofsky-on-windows-7-and-netbooks\">Ars@PDC: Steven Sinofsky on Windows 7 and netbooks<\/a> &#8211; Ars Technica interviews Steven Sinofsky about running Windows 7 on a netbook.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netbooktech.com\/2008\/11\/03\/windows-7-pre-beta-on-the-lenovo-ideapad-s10\/\">Windows 7 pre-beta on the Lenovo IdeaPad S10<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to keep my work and home life on different computers. 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The problem I find is that, every time I&#8217;m away from home (which is when I get most of my blogging done), I find myself carrying around two laptops and, even without any peripherals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/12\/why-lenovos-s10-seemed-like-a-good-ideapad-to-me.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Lenovo&#8217;s S10 seemed like a good idea(pad) to me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[69,144,32],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-lenovo","tag-windows-7","tag-pc-hardware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Lenovo&#039;s S10 seemed like a good idea(pad) to me - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/12\/why-lenovos-s10-seemed-like-a-good-ideapad-to-me.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Lenovo&#039;s S10 seemed like a good idea(pad) to me - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I try to keep my work and home life on different computers. 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