Description: There are no huge surprises to be found in the IdeaPad S10, but the
machine impresses at every turn. It's pint-sized,
light (2.7 pounds), and bereft of big power, featuring the now-standard 1.6-GHz Atom CPU and 1 GB of RAM. But dig deeper and you'll find a series of impressive upgrades over the competition: The most visible is a 10.2-inch
LCD vs. the 8.9-inch
screen that's become the norm on mini-notes. Another modest upgrade puts a 160-GB hard drive at your disposal, the largest among all netbooks we've seen. And you get Windows XP, not yet another Linux of the Month flavor that you'll have to learn from scratch (and thankfully not Vista, which runs like molasses on these
machines). Performance isn't great, but compared to the category, it's at the top. At the very least, it's one of the few
machines that were able to actually complete our benchmark routine.