So a while back I posted that I was in the middle of testing some of the top net books up for sale. All together I tested three different net books. The Acer Aspire One, the ASUS Eee PC 901, and the Lenovo IdeaPad S10.
So finally the Lenovo IdeaPad S10. The specs on this system include a 10.1” (1024x500) widescreen, 512MB DDR2 RAM, 80GB Hard Drive, and the 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor. At first I was a little worried about the system only having 512MB of RAM, I mean it is XP but still that’s not a lot of RAM After popping the battery in and going through the normal XP setup I was up and running. Believe me when I say, you don’t really miss the other 512MB of RAM at all. It preformed just as well as the other two net books even with less memory. I LOVED the 10” screen, you wouldn’t think another inch of screen would matter, but it does. I also liked the feel of the Lenovo, it felt very solid and seemed to be very well put together.
I also liked the easily accessible door on the bottom of the system that gave access to the memory slots as well as the hard drive. The other two systems have to be taken completely apart to get to the hard drive if you wanted to upgrade it. The Lenovo is two screws, and the hard drive literally slides out. I give mad props to Lenovo for thinking this out! The keyboard on this unit is also my favorite, it is very close to a full blown laptop keyboard, so very easy for even my fat fingers to type on.
Overall I just liked this system better, although I would probably add more RAM just to get it up to 1GB. I give this net book 4.5 out of 5 stars. The only reason this system did not get a full 5 is because of the smaller hard drive and lower amount of RAM that comes standard. The Acer model came with 1GB of RAM and a 160GB Hard Drive, I wish the Lenovo had these same specs.
So out of all three systems, Lenovo takes the gold. Once the Hard Drive and RAM are upgraded this system just plain rocks compared to the other two. Thank You Lenovo for another great laptop.
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