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The Lenovo Ideapad S10 is the company’s first entry in the netbook category.Although it is not a well-known name among many Americans, Lenovo has a strong reputation in laptop design. They are a Chinese company that purchased IBM’s famous Thinkpad division several years ago. Ideapad is the name Lenovo uses for their consumer line.

The S10 is Lenovo’s netbook entry, and bears a strong resemblance to other computers in the category. This laptop includes a 160GB hard drive, 1 GB RAM, and Windows XP. This is all inside a frame holding a 10″ screen and powered by an Intel Atom processor running at 1.6 GHz.

With a fairly typical featureset, the Ideapad S10 is forced to compete largely on the basis of brand name, design, and price. It is competitive in all of these departments – as Lenovo is known as a reliable laptop manufacturer, the S10 has an attractive white casing, and the slightly greater than $300 price is close to similar netbooks.

For more information about the S10, visit its pages at eBay and Amazon.