Archive for the ‘Netbook Guides’ Category
PC Magazine’s netbook buying guide
If you’re looking for another netbook buying guide (what? ours wasn’t good enough for you?!??!), then do check out PC Magazine’s latest guide published today. They provide a good rundown as to what to expect from a typical netbook system and then offer up several choices to look at including the Acer Aspire One, the ASUS N10, the Dell Inspiron Mini 9, the HP Mini 1000, the Lenovo IdeaPad S10, and the MSI Wind. Of course if you need additional help, check out our holiday buyers guide here. Whatever you choose, there’s no doubt that now is a good time to jump into a netbook system.
The NBT 2008 Holiday Shopping Guide
A netbook makes the perfect gift this holiday shopping season. With the economy taking a nosedive, more consumers than ever before are looking for the best bang for the buck and a netbook fits the bill just nicely. Don’t think that netbooks are relegated to just geeks either. Both men and women love netbooks (remember that ASUS found that many who buy netbooks are in fact women!).
They’re small; they’re light; they’re cute; they’re sexy; and most of all, they’re full function PCs that are useful.
With that said, welcome to our first annual holiday shopping guide for netbooks. Our goal here is to help you pick that right netbook – whether it’s for your kid, your wife, your girlfriend of boyfriend, your parents, or of course, yourself. Without further ado, let’s take a look at our recommended systems for 2008!
Guide to upgrading memory and hard drive on the Lenovo IdeaPad S10
It’s extremely easy to upgrade the storage and memory capacities of the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook. To do either upgrade, you’ll need to have a Phillips screwdriver on hand which will be used to remove the bottom panel from the netbook. If you’re planning to upgrade the hard drive, you’ll need a replacement 2.5 inch SATA notebook hard drive and if you’re upgrading the memory, you’ll need a single 667MHz DDR2 SO-DIMM memory module.
It’s important to note that the IdeaPad S10 comes with 512MB of memory soldered directly onto the motherboard. Thus if you order the 512MB version of the S10, you’ll have a single free SO-DIMM slot. If you get the 1GB version of the S10, you’ll have a 512MB SO-DIMM memory module occupying the slot. You can add a either a 512MB, 1GB, or 2GB memory module to the S10 but the netbook will only recognize up to a maximum of 2GB of memory.
