Sylvania g Netbook Meso Review (LAPTOP Mag)

LAPTOP Magazine has published their review of the 8.9″ Sylvania g Netbook Meso (Which is also known as the Amtek Elego elsewhere). They compared the keyboard to keyboards found on smaller 7″ netbooks (Asus Eee PC , Everex CloudBook). They recommend the Acer Aspire One … Read more

Lenovo IdeaPad S10 and X4500 – Yay or Nay?

Lenovo IdeaPad S10 Update: Joanna Stern at LAPTOP Magazine took a look at the device manager and has posted a screenshot showing that it does have the GMA 950 graphics chipset.

There’s been some discussion on various websites and forums about a blurb on Lenovo’s website for the IdeaPad S10 and its integrated Graphics Meda Accelerator (graphics chip). It specifically mentions:

Intel Integrated Graphics X4500

I believe this to be inaccurate, for several reasons.
1) GMA 4500MHD is the actual mobile listing (although many people, myself included, lump the X4500 series together, GMA X4500 and GMA X4500HD are the desktop graphics). That’s actually the weakest argument I’m making because the numbers are lumped together, so I’m dumping it here at #1.

2) Numerous articles mentioned the S10 to have the Intel 945 GSE chipset. The 945 GSE chipset does not support the GMA X4500 or 4500MHD. It supports the GMA 950. A different chipset is required for the X4500 / 4500MHD.

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Intel Reveals Dual-Core Atom 330

Intel Atom Intel has officially revealed information about the first of the dual-core Atoms, the Atom 330. The version mentioned is the desktop version (N330), but much of it applies to the netbook market since the chipsets, specs, etc., are so similar.

Specifications (that should be in netbooks)
– Still a 533MHz FSB
– HyperThreading still present (may look like four cores, but really two cores)
– Desktop version based on 945GC Express chipset
– GMA 950 integrated graphics
– 2GB (Maximum) of 533MHz or 667MHz DDR2 Memory

They’ve released a fact sheet about the desktop / nettop version as well.

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Lenovo IdeaPad S10, S9 – Hands On at IDF

Lenovo IdeaPad S10 Both the 10.2-inch Lenovo IdeaPad S10 as well as the 8.9-inch Lenovo IdeaPad S9 have been spotted at Fall 2008 Intel Developer Forum.

UMPC Portal posted a gallery of photos, while Joanna Stern made a few videos showing off the front-facing speakers as well as the display (and boot-up).

She came away with a very favorable impression of the keyboard and scrolling touchpad:

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