Lenovo debuts ultra-thin IdeaPad S10-3s; starts at $379.99
Summary: Lenovo has another debut ready for us today. Basically a slimmed-down version of the S10-3, the IdeaPad S10-3s is a basic upgrade with a few minor additions and a slightly-higher price tag.
Lenovo has another debut ready for us today. Basically a slimmed-down version of the S10-3, the IdeaPad S10-3s is a basic upgrade with a few minor additions and a slightly-higher price tag.
The measurements are the most notable details on the new Lenovo IdeaPad. This netbook weighs only 2.4 pounds and measures only 0.6 inches thick. Sounds like the perfect travel companion. The keyboard should also be easy to handle, being a 98% full-size chiclet set-up. Hopefully Lenovo has worked a bit on that touchpad a bit, as reviewers of the S10-3 weren't too pleased with it.
The IdeaPad S10-3s is also targeted towards the more fashion-conscious consumers, with models available in black, white and a "spring flowers" design.
Specs-wise, buyers can choose from either an Intel Atom N470 or N450 processor, and also four different wireless options (Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth and WWAN). And even though it may seem frilly (especially if you opt for the flower pattern), Lenovo is offering security on this netbook in the form of their Active Protection System (APS), which includes face recognition technology, data recovery and anti-virus tools.
The IdeaPad S10-3s will be released in mid-April, starting at $379.99.
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RE: Lenovo debuts ultra-thin IdeaPad S10-3s; starts at $379.99
Sheesh
RE: Lenovo debuts ultra-thin IdeaPad S10-3s; starts at $379.99
silly, the touch screen version is $499
"and comes from Apple?"
The apple thingy doesn't have the Atom processor which makes it fully Win7 compatible, which then makes it fully capable of running just about any application ever written for Windows. That could run into the millions of "apps" for the Lenovo. Can the apple thingy do that?
Furthermore, the Lenovo device has connectivity ports and a lot more ram for storage.
So, yeah, the iPad may have the current "coolness" factor working for it, but when it comes to the power of a real computer, the iPad is very lacking. When it comes to computing, toys should never be compared to real computers.
Then, there's the big price tag for the iPad vs the lower price tag for the Lenovo touch pad. And with the iPad, to get it close to the power of the Lenovo device, you'd have to spend a few hundred dollars more. At the end of all the upgrades, you'd end up with an iPad costing you perhaps 3 times what the Lenovo costs. And you'd still not have a fully capable computer.
Re: and comes from Apple?
the biggest deficit in tablet PCs in my mind has
been the weight and the interface. Something like
this has the weight down; all that is left is the
touch interface...
The iPad is still mostly an overhyped toy...
It's Great!
I have the $600 version running Win7/8 cell battery. With normal use I get 5-6 hours. About an hour less than the S10-2 I had.
Win7 does a great job with touch screen controls. This can do anything a regular notebook can do.
If you can find a local vendor I would recommend you go out and test drive one.
I'll take it in black please! :S
hope they are using a different touchpad with
different technology underneath it. I like thin and
that's not much heavier than an iPad. That has none of
these features. Moves around like it's on a bed of ice
on a table. Slip n slide iPad is simply unworkable for
any long period of use, I've found out. By comparison
this device can actually be used, unlike what Apple
has delivered in a GIANT iPhone! ....(curses as I
think about dropping my friend's new iPad being sent
back in at this momment) :( ...that iPad is nothing
but a fancy toy and not practical at all!
RE: Lenovo debuts ultra-thin IdeaPad S10-3s; starts at $379.99
Dream On
This makes it in netbook size for those of use who want a true "carry around" notebook.
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Hope iPad Fails just to Knock the Chip off Apple Fan's Shoulders! ;) nt
The chip isn't on the shoulders of Apple Fans...
haters...
Apple is kicking ass and winning, and Apple fans
are happy... It looks like the iPad is kicking
ass as well...
RE: Lenovo debuts ultra-thin IdeaPad S10-3s; starts at $379.99
RE: Lenovo debuts ultra-thin IdeaPad S10-3s; starts at $379.99
netbook with a touchscreen and the ability to flip the
screen like we've seen on so many tablet PCs, and *spend
the time to get the touch UI right*, it could be a
contender...
touchscreen???
Even if the touchpad is lousy, a good touchscreen helps compensate for it.
Easy to see your not my friend, John! haha ;)
had it's negatives, the iPad is an iPhail compared to
this. Sadly iPad will join iMac i7 as the most flawed
computing device to come out Apple since the Fig Newton
Failure. If any device was just plain wrong it's these
two devices out of Apple.
My friend has had now 5 iMac i7's belly up on him. But
does Apple even admit there is problem? NO! ....they just
hand you another and shhhhh.... lol
We knew the iPad was going to be sleek and all, but I can
hold on to an icecube, better than that thing. It's also
too heavy for one handed use while standing and that's
if.... you feel comfortable taking the chance. It's
bottom is curved and can spin like a top on a table.
Carrying around a towel to keep it stationary, so you can
actually use it is abominable.
I moved to the sofa (very carefully with my friend's)
with a drink in one hand and the iPad in the other.
Unless you have spiderman's fingers it can slip right
out. When it falls, even from waist high on carpet, the
screen can indeed BREAK! ...as I found out. Sorry but I
don't need a device that makes me feel like I'm carrying
around a piece of Tiffany Glass Art. If I can't straight
up use it, I don't want it!
Here John spent the $1000 total for extended warranty and
the goodies (which aren't that good, er wifi is
laughable) and he now says, I wish I hadn't bought it!
Just so you know, iPhone has the highest accidental
damage rate of any mobile phone on the market = 30% total
including hardware malfunctions, I just found out. That's
nearly twice that of any of it's competitors. That's a
design flaw and the reason the cost of extended
warranties has gone sky high on it. At Best Buy that's supplemented by everyone else that's smart, buying a
different device!
My Prediction is: the iPad will exceed those rank numbers
and even the disastrous i7 iMac debacle! ..I'm finding
out that Apple products have reverted to their failure
market of the 90's and that god awful Newton! ;)
RE: Lenovo debuts ultra-thin IdeaPad S10-3s; starts at $379.99
Unfortunately it shows that Microsoft is the limiting factor...
These PC/hardware makers can good products, but the unavoidable conclusion is that the Microsoft Windows, despite its strength as a great general purpose OS, has become a limiting factor in consumer innovation.
All of these PC/PDA/Smart Phone device designs have to conform to the general purpose Windows UI. -- And that limits innovation.
And as an objective analysis -- business wise, it limits these PC/Hardware companies -- they become disposable commodity manufacturers chained to Microsoft.
Apple, on the other hand, is free to innovate with their hardware, because they also control the OS.
Insightfully easy to use software plus good hardware design is gold.
Message/Advice to Microsoft
Design your next generation OS so that manufacturers can customize the UI, as a layer on top of the OS.
Model-View-Controller OS?