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Ideapad S10 netbook announced
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:51 am
by MGD_drinker
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:49 am
by MGT
That's not too surprising. Shame it doesn't have a TrackPoint though.
Clearly what's needed is a 'netbook' with the butteryfly keyboard and a TrackPoint. The touchpads and tiny keys are a real problem on most of these 'netbooks.'
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:05 am
by Puppy
Yeah, missing trackpoint is another lost opportunity to offer something special.
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:18 am
by qviri
An opportunity wasted. Yet another exercise in mediocrity from a company that should be capable of so much more.
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:28 pm
by qviri
Not sure if this has been posted yet,
some reasonably good pictures.
I can like the outside (in fact the front goes a long way to looking good), and would possibly begin to live with the keyboard (but please, please, please, drop the arrow keys a row, or do what Apple does and make them half-height, or
something), but to add insult to the injury that is lack of trackpoint, the trackpad is pretty small and looks horribly off-center to the keyboard. I don't know if they tried to make it centred over the whole laptop width, or what, but look at
this and tell me there isn't something wrong there.
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:16 pm
by JaneL
qviri wrote:to add insult to the injury that is lack of trackpoint,
It's not a ThinkPad. Why would you expect a TrackPoint?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:20 am
by FRiC
It has a centered touchpad! I can't believe they did that when everyone's complaining about the off-center screen on ThinkPads.
(Centered touchpads are bad.)
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:11 pm
by The Spirit of X21
nonny wrote:qviri wrote:to add insult to the injury that is lack of trackpoint,
It's not a ThinkPad. Why would you expect a TrackPoint?
Seconded. Lenovo won't be sending a ThinkPad to fight this battle anytime soon. (I hope)
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:17 pm
by pxa270
Looks fantastic to me, mainly thanks to the very thin display bezel. It has a 10" screen like the MSI Wind, but it's smaller overall thanks to the thin bezel. The dimensions are almost the same as the Acer Aspire One, which only has a 8.9" screen because it has a thick bezel. In fact, think the Ideapad S10 looks a lot better than the X200, again due to the X200's stupid bezel.
Did I mention how much I hate thick bezels?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:15 pm
by qviri
nonny wrote:It's not a ThinkPad. Why would you expect a TrackPoint?
s/expect/hope for/
Because it would make the laptop better.
While not costing any significant amount of money in either research or implementation.
From a distance, this almost looks like a younger brother to the 12" Powerbook G4. And I mean that as a compliment. Maybe it'll grow on me yet.
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:31 pm
by getsandy
How about starting a totally new section for Ideapad S* series?
This is totally a new line of Netbook's from Lenovo & it is totally different from rest of Ideapad series.
Sandy
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:56 pm
by JaneL
qviri wrote:Because it would make the laptop better.
Well, I definitely agree with that! If I ran the world, ALL notebooks would have a TrackPoint, but, alas, I don't.
