As evolutionary updates go you don’t get more basic than a cosmetic refresh, so imagine our surprise to find Lenovo guilty of just such a relaunch.  The Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 takes the company’s original S10 netbook and, most obviously, reworks the casing; is that enough to keep the S10-2 near the top of the netbook leaderboard?  SlashGear set to finding out.

To be fair to Lenovo, it’s not only the casing that has been tweaked.  There have been some port changes too, dropping the ExpressCard 34 slot and replacing it with a third USB 2.0 socket, together with squeezing in a slightly larger keyboard and shaving 0.1-inches of thickness and 0.4lbs of weight off.  The result is an altogether slicker, curvier and, dare we say it, less Lenovo-like netbook, which will please customers tempted over from HP and ASUS, but might not satisfy staunch ThinkPad addicts.

Build-quality, despite the relatively low price, is decent, and we find the overall design to be attractive in a vaguely non-descript way.  Things don’t get much more distinctive under the hood, mind; you’re looking at the usual 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard-drive and a standard 6-cell battery.  The 10.1-inch display runs at 1024 x 600 resolution and uses Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics; meanwhile connectivity is the somewhat miserly WiFi b/g (no draft-n support here) paired with 10/100 Ethernet.
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