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so we got here today a Lenovo yeah I should've checked so we have a Lenovo IdeaPad s10 here which is supposed to be the next big thing in subnotebooks so we are going to open it up it features an Intel Atom processor 512 Meg's of RAM 80 gig magnetic hard drive Windows XP a 10.2 inch LCD display and it comes in a box that is rated for 2.5 5 no twenty five point five pounds per inch of edge crush so that's very very impressive lenovo thank you inside we will find the Lenovo s10 sub notebook we find a wow that is a thick thick instruction manual it's like really thick it's awesome so this is what happens when I don't press at all for things so then we've got our accessory blocks which I'm going to assume has yes the power adapter and a battery so not much in the way of accessories come with the s10 but stay tuned we're going to open this baby up and have a look so first impressions is it is a little bit on the heavier side for a sub notebook including the three cell battery but it's also a little bit bigger than those two the sub notes out there so we're going to take off the plastic covering here which is um held on by masking tape very classy and we're going to take off the little protective plastic cover on the Lenovo logo which is very shiny and very nice the finish on this is kind of a matte black looks like it's going to be a bit of a fingerprint magnet but again that would be a common theme for all of us oh this is nice the inside has kind of a traditional IBM matte black finish too keys and to the whole interior of the unit which has a bit of a sparkle to it actually and we're going to take the screen protector off here that is a very classy looking little sub note so there's actually little chromed accents around the webcam as well as on the power button I'm going to have a close look at this keyboard this is one of the better sub note keyboards we've seen yet and I'm just going to test it out really briefly here okay the one complaint right off the bat first let me say it is not a multilingual keyboard so if you want an English only keyboard this will do it for you however in my opinion the shift key on this side should be a little bit closer to the home row instead of having an up arrow there the left shift is quite comfortable and most of the other keys are within comfortable reach including the enter key and the backspace as well as tab caps lock anything else that you're going to need so on the right side of the notebook we've got Express card headphones microphone USB and land with a Kensington lock and then on the other side of the notebook we've got a DC in so that's for your your wall adapter then you've got a VGA out an SD card and one more USB port so the s10 does have one fewer USB port than most of the other sub notebooks that I've seen it does have some other advantages as well though such as the bottom plate from here you can see that you can easily access both the RAM and the hard drive just by taking out two screws it's much more user-friendly than some of the other sub notebooks out there and it'll make user upgrades theoretically a breeze although it's not likely to win any prizes for the best value or necessarily even the best feature set the s10 is great for if you have a little bit more money for your sub notebook and you want to look absolutely fabulous while you're using it the style and the form is unprecedented for the Lenovo s10 also if you have any suggestions for future products or any topics you want to see covered you