S12 12.1″ 160GB HDD Black
Amazon.com price : $434.99
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The notebook Lenovo IdeaPad S12 features a 12 1-inch WVGA display bright contrast, crisp images, increased color depth, with wide viewing angle.…
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I'm not easily impressed, but this is a wonderful product. I bought it for a boy to college, and a Mac is a Mac, because that's what was the University of pressure and this is what they wanted all their friends. But knowing that everything he needed to do their homework and blogging, could not netbook Lenovo. You can not say, and do not know that it is only a Netbook. Convergence is, folks.
To my great surprise, runs the video, but surely not quite perfect, but good enough for the price. The six-cell battery is phenomenal.
I think of mine if I would then the battery as large as possible (nine cells) and the purchase 2G memory upgrade.
Verified Amazon Purchase (What is this?) I only had the S12 for 3 days and I will probably add a review, but wanted to go further and a little 'info) are available, particularly around the issue of modernization of RAM (memory. I refer to the model with the 1 ° 6 GHz Atom processor and not the version Via Nano.
First, it is a netbook, not a laptop, so set your expectations accordingly. This can be a bit 'difficult, given the price and the fact that is larger than the standard netbook, but it is "only" a Netbook. I knocked on the number of stars 5 to 4 stars primarily because the price is expressed in S12 area low-end laptop. Many buyers will add external optical drive (no DVD / CD-ROM included) and the extra RAM. After the upgrade, the S12 is actually a series of low-end laptop computers, laptops and many of the low-end prices are even more features. Of course, the S12 compensates for thin and light, but this is a bit 'heavy for a netbook prictag, and offers limited functionality a Netbook.
The screen is 12 ", is bright and the colors are beautiful. I have not noticed too much in the way of thinking. The keyboard is full size or close enough that I can not understand the difference, and touch typing is easy. The weight, with battery installed, £ 3 6 7 oz for my digital postal scale. Build quality seems very good, not fragile at all.
There are 3 USB ports, two on the same page. Do not talk about because many external optical drive requires two USB ports, and the supplied cables are pretty short. There are a number of complaints about this from those without buying netbooks 2 ports on the same side of the disk (without the addition of an extension cord, a simple, but usable aggravating). With the S12, you should not the problem, which makes it one less thing to worry about.
Updgrade Memory – It seems that there is misinformation on this topic. The 1 6 Atom processor is up to 2 GB of memory is limited (supposedly). E 'connected to the motherboard 1 GB (not removable), and there is an empty slot beneath a removable cover on the bottom of the S12, so you can add another stick. I read one or two reports of users successfully added a 2 GB stick (in total), 3GB, but the reports were just for Via Nano version of the S12, so do not know if the Atom version of the same will be monitored. Amazon drives Crucial 2GB stick, which means that you can use a total of 3 GB, but I think that is questionable. Perhaps more information on this surface, but I find that I only ordered 1 GB of additional RAM, I would be safe.
Battery Life – I Do not place the battery completely down, but it seems maybe 4-4. 5 hours. Not great, but remember, you run a 12 "screen and higher screen resolution (1280×800), compared to most other netbooks.
Touchpad – Lenovo has a good size, not very large as most notebooks, but it is more than ok. There are two mouse buttons below independent, based on the small side, but work smoothly. The scroll bar on the mouse pad works well, a bit 'jerky at times, but overall good.
Wifi – seems to have a good selection, quite normal, and no complaints so far.
On the issue of wifi, I will only mention briefly how FYI, I had a problem with the communication of a process of "confirmation, I tried the first time in my house to connect to the wireless network. I entered my network password, and the S12 is connected to the home network, but then came the identity validation Hung Up '. " You can read the problems with this if you do a search on the Internet, but ended as follows: Right-click the wireless connection. Click Properties. Click the Wireless Networks tab. Click Properties. Click the Authentication tab. Uncheck the box next to "Enable IEEE 802 1x authentication for this network". Once again, I have this on S12, do not do anything for my wireless router. I still enter my network password to get started on my network. I'm sure that most will have no problem, so if for what it's worth it.
In summary, the S12 is a product of soft, not too small, not too big. He built a good quality, large screen (conditions of netbooks), a large keyboard and is quite easy for the order without too much effort. I have reviewed the Samsung NC20, but the
Difference between the Amazon, the prices of the two I gave to the S12 (which I did not want to deal) with 3 parts on this purchase. All in all a quality product.
Lenovo S12 page was not very descriptive, so I called technical support, to ask if this was the ONE platform, NVIDIA and said yes, that has the NVIDIA 2959 ION for a few months earlier. WRONG! Lenovo website is constantly evolving, but precise information is still missing, and so their sales and technical support is! The site for the car that I ordered – 295954U is now more information in the specification and the platform of the video that came with me is now described as the "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950". Now there's a new model number for NVIDIA, which was not available when I placed my order. I would be the device, if I was not ever again have ordered the platform NVIDIA. The 160GB hard drive, it is incorrect, because a large part of it is reserved for System Restore to restore the alleged new hard disk to its original condition or restored at a later date. I did not work and I had to send back again displayed. Granted, I tried a dual-boot configuration with Ubuntu Linux and fully utilized every bit of the disk. Contain no backup CD or CD-operating system and does not provide a wish – another rip off! If I had the dishes, I would once again demonstrated. He had a large part of the disc is not a feature available to restore dual-boot would work without problems.
I want to buy a copy of Acronis True Image (or download a free version OEM (Seagate DiscWizard)). Be prepared, without the PC for at least a week, if not restore function, and if the drive is not ready to pay more under warranty! Fortunately, I was new.
On the positive side, I like the size of the screen and the keyboard works well, even with my gloves XL. Run time was good and uncensored, with the wireless connection. I miss the platform is NVIDIA? Probably not, since not much time to play.