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Lenovo Ideapad S10 10.2-Inch Netbook is amazingly quick and does what it is designed for exceptionally well. The only real quirk as shipped was the use of a FAT32 file system on the primary partition of the hard drive that runs XP. That was easily changed to NTFS using the XP convert utility. When I was downloading files, I connect the S10 to an USB port that hosts various optical drives, a very old HP printer, and a variety of hard drives. It recognized all of them. It is hard to imagine that the S10 is probably half the weight of my first 40MB hard drive and cost less. Battery life on both this and the R61 are modest, but for me, the quality outweighs this ‘minus’.

Lenovo Ideapad S10 10.2-Inch Netbook build quality (and style/design) are really quite good, and it feels more solid than the Asus. Bigger keyboard, slightly better trackpad, bigger screen. I immediately installed Ubuntu Linux and its quite speedy, and suspend/hibernate are flawless. The biggest problem is the battery life: I haven’t done a quantitative comparison, but the Asus battery lasts much longer – I plan to order a 6-cell battery if/when they’re available. I’ve tweaked power performance with PowerTop, but its still not what I would want for a long trip. Its a shame to have to plug something so portable into the wall!