Lenovo Ideapad S101311UW 10.2Inch White Netbook
December 11, 2009 by admin
Filed under $200 - $300, $300 - $400, Lenovo, Products, Small Laptops For Business, Small Laptops For Students
Enjoy more perks with increased portability. The IdeaPad S10 notebook makes it easy to get connected, anytime, anywhere.And it's designed to keep pace with your busy lifestyle, possibly even simplify it. At a mere 2.65 lbs and about one inch thin, it's so light and portable you can take it wherever your day takes you. Plus it's loaded with thoughtful standard features to make your life a little easier. It features a winning combination of mobile technology and exceptional engineering at a fantastic price. ....read more Average Customer Rating
Brand: Lenovo Model: 59019956 Price: $363.99 |   | |
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4 out of 5
Would have thought twice
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
The Ideapad is extremely delightful and compact to travel through airports or to use while commuting. Lenovo tech support is less than stellar; had I known it was out-sourced outside of the US, I would have purchased another brand. It’s been more than 45 days, and I have not been able to reach Levono to enable the 12 month warranty!!! Have not encountered any problems in terms of use.
Weithing
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I encourage to buy this item. It’s good. But, I have to see what happen with scan on it.
Thanks
Vladimr
A great gift
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I bought the Lenovo Ideapad because my son who has one is very happy with it so I bought it as a gift for another daughter in law. Simply put, she was ecstatic when she got it. All I got was ‘brownie points’ but I’m glad she likes it.
Lenovo S10 – Bad service
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I bought this Lenovo S10 laptop from Amazon for my wife about 6 months ago. We did not have it long enough to evaluate the laptop since the unit did not take charge and we could not use it for the last three months. Technical and service support from Lenovo is the worst I ever experienced with any major electronics company in my life. As of today, 3 months after we notified Lenovo of the issue, it is not fixed yet.
We sent the laptop back to Lenovo two times, each time we received the unit back, the problem was not fixed. I finally told them that they need to send me the new power adaptor since the unit did not receive any power from the malfunction power adaptor. That was a month and a half ago. They said they would send me the replacement power adaptor.
The first time, they sent me a wrong power adaptor.
I called and yelled and even cursed at them because I was dealing with stupid people that work in that Technical Service group. Every time I called to asked if they sent the power adaptor, each time they said they would send it the next day. My case (WN116340) is still open as of today (10/7/2009).
I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER PRODUCT FROM LENOVO AGAIN. Their Technical and Service Center is worthless.
Paul Dang
Better than my Laptop!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
A year ago I purchased a Compaq laptop for home use, thinking that it would also be portable if need be. Well, laptops can be carried around but they are also a bit heavy. For my birthday this year, after researching netbooks, I purchased a Lenovo Ideapad S10 from Amazon along with a neoprene carry case (with handles) and 2gb memory. With the carry case the netbook is about the same size and weight as a small purse! I don’t play games or download lots of photos or videos, so this netbook with an upgrade of memory is perfect for my needs. After doing additional research, I’ve acquired an SSD to replace the hard drive and a SanDisk 8gb memory card for back up, etc. Eventually I’ll load my Microsoft Home & Student 2007 Suite so that the netbook will have the same data and word processing capabilities as my laptop. The Lenovo hooked up right away with Sprint broadband, too. So far, so good — very pleased with my purchase and with Amazon’s great service!
Better than Average
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Okay, so this is my first review ever. I will try to give the pros and cons.
Pros:
Small
Reliable
Good Screen
Good Packaging
Semi-quiet (without the fan, one can barely hear the hard drive, unless specifically listening for it. However,
the fan can get a tad loud when the laptop is under load, from viewing hulu for example, but not ridiculous)
Average Pricing (Could be better) – bought it for $320 with free shipping
Comes with cool quick-boot operating system before, or on top of, Windows XP, so one does not have to load Windows XP just to go online, for example.
Easy to upgrade (upgraded hard drive to 500GB and RAM to 2GB
Even though Amazon categorizes this model as S10-1311UW, the one I received both times was the 4231 model, which is the newest model as of writing this review
Cons:
Laptop can get very hot
The first laptop I got overheated and stopped working reliably (Amazon was great, though, and sent me a replacement)
The keyboard is small (one must expect this, however, as it is a small netbook)
Right shift key is out of place from normal keyboard position (this is common with other netbooks, however)
Those are as many cons as I can think of as of now.
Overall I love this laptop and would recommend it to anyone. Though I believe it gets a little too hot, it could just be me. I bought this over the dell mini 9 and acer netbook because of the lenovo namebrand and look.
S10 – love the netbook
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I go this version of the S10 and I’ve been using it heavily around the house and on the train ride to and from work. In addition to the S10 I purchased a 9 cell battery to replace the stock battery, and a 2GB RAM stick to bump up the RAM from 1GB to two.
First the display. It is a 10″ netbook and the resolution is 1024×600. If you’re doing some heavy duty graphics then this isn’t the right tool. But for web browsing and email it works great.
The keyboard is just a little bit tight and I find myself hitting the very edge of the keys when typing. But with a little adjustment I can get used to the keyboard and the layout. The tab and caps lock key are easy to mix up, and the fn key + home combination is a bit awkward. But for a 10″ keyboard you can’t complain. And it is way better than the other netbook keyboards I’ve tried.
The hard drive is 160GB SATA so there is tons of room to install Office 2007 and other applications you may want to use. When the price of SSD storage comes down I’ll probably snap in a SSD in place of the mechanical hard drive, but for now the drive works great and I have plenty of room for storing pictures and music.
The wireless works great and I was able to connect to my wireless router using WPA2 + PSK. I was able to clock in at 1.04MB/sec downloading from the internet – just as fast as my desktop PC. Clearly the wireless isn’t the bottleneck.
Using the webcam for Skype works find. The resolution is a little low but it works great for a built-in webcam. The microphone didn’t work so well but I added a USB Skype phone for better overall voice with Skype any way. (I’d recommend a USB Skype phone or headset if you want to do voice-only calls, it really makes a world of difference.)
The S10 has only 2 USB ports so if you have a bunch of USB devices I’d recommend a small travel hub. I only have a mouse and CD / DVD drive so 2 ports are just fine, but to add a USB thumb drive would take a hub.
The only slight negative I found is the SDCard reader doesn’t let you push the card all the way in – it kind of sits half-way in and is somewhat exposed. I had wanted to use the SDCard for a backup device for my OS upgrade adventures (see below) but that didn’t work because the SDCard hangs out too far to leave it in during normal operation. On the plus side it did work great for transferring my pictures without needing a USB port.
The 9-cell battery hangs off the back of the S10 pretty far, creating a pretty big bump on the back. It kind of hangs down, creating a mini laptop stand that raises and tilts the S10 forward about ¾ inches. The only complaint I have with the battery is it takes almost forever to charge!! I’m not sure if it’s the battery or not, but even the 3 cell battery that comes with the s10 has a glacial charging pace. Still, 7 – 8 hours on the battery makes up for it, and now I have a spare (the old 3 cell) to pop in as a backup.
FWIW, I blew away all the OEM software & partitions and put Windows 7 (RC 1 build 7100) on the S10. All the hardware drivers were downloaded and work great with no installation on my part. The web cam was detected and there was an update for the intel chipset that I got after I did the windows update. But for a beta (or Release Candidate) OS it was amazingly painless. Windows 7 boots and operates just as fast as Windows XP. After putting in the 2GB stick I’m thrilled with the performance.
Overall the S10 packs everything I need into a 10″ netbook. Replacing the 1GB RAM stick with a 2GB stick is the only major enhancement this little netbook could use.