The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 grabs you attention with its deepblue top and  chrome-finished Lenovo badge. The beauty runs to the inside as well though, with good attention to detail in places such as the camera, for example, which has a nice chrome ring around it.

Looks aren’t everything and it doesn’t take too long to notice a few functionality issues with the S10. The buttons on the touchpad are hard and the Function key is placed on the extreme left of the keyboard instead of the Control key—if you are used to desktop keyboards, your hand will invariably hit Function when you wanted to reach for the Control button.
 

This is a problem also seen on the MSI Wind. The F12 key, although not used often, is missing from the keyboard. It is only available as a hotkey. The Tab key is also much smaller. All these reductions seem to have benefited the rest of the keyboard layout — it’s spacious. The keyboard also feels sturdy with little travel to the keys.

Performance figures for this netbook were also identical to most of its competitors. A detail to note here: 3D Mark 2005 refused to run due to the as the netbook lacked the minimum of 128 MB video memory required for the benchmark. We couldn’t set the video memory beyond 64 MB. There aren’t any hotspots around the notebook. The only bit of heat can be felt on the sides of the unit; nothing around the touchpad, which is a good thing.

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There is a compact and lightweight battery on the Lenovo S10 which kept the S10 running for 1 hr 48 minutes in our tests; which is a decent time. There are many netbooks with better battery life and these are available for a lot less than the S10. At Rs. 26,000, it’s definitely expensive and is worth only looks matter the most to you.

The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 grabs you attention with its deepblue top and  chrome-finished Lenovo badge. The beauty runs to the inside as well though, with good...