Comments on: Hands-On with the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2

By: EON

EON — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:36:04 +0000

HI REA, i also faced similar prob with stuck sim, called the callcenter but its vain to do so. warning! to all, do not attempt to insert sim as it go all the way inside to god knows to what . i damaged my sim while taking it out with a thin pair of clipper. for those planning to buy do keep in mind first get the complete info how to use sim, and that this netbook gets too heated up on conti. use for more than an hour and mine started hanging and i had to run the restore prog. now i feel any regular laptop with small screen say 11” or 12” and dvd drive would have been better and plan to change.

By: rea

rea — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:28:05 +0000

could somebody help me how will i released the sim from the slot because it get inside totaly and thres no button to released it. andhow thesim will work as well using lenovo s10-2

By: Bitoy

Bitoy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:07:54 +0000

what are the onlines games it can support and tested?

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:31:13 +0000

Love this laptop. I originally bought it for my 15 year old daughter. She liked it but said the screen was too small to play her online games. I have been traveling (FedEx pilot) with it for over two months. It has been great. The mouse pad is fine. I prefer a wireless mouse though. I just ordered a 2GB RAM chip to speed it up. This was not necessary. It is just something that I do to all of my computers. I did disable several of the startup programs.

By: BigKumaDog

BigKumaDog — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:34:54 +0000

Well to my total disgust just found out that the rear SIM slot is just for decoration on my S10-2. There is no reader installed on the motherboard, wow so even after I found a card that the locked BIOS would accept I’m stuck without 3G. Strange they give you a mini-pci socket for broadband modem but no reader on the motherboard just a slot with a SIM symbol, so you can put a SIM card in there so that it could just flop around unti it possibly short something out. So BEWARE don’t buy the S10-2 if you think you aregoing to be able to have internal 3G unless yu can find the right SIM reader with the correct pin out and you are good at soldering your SOL. Well look like thiswill be the last Lenovo I’m going to buy I upgraded my S10 to the S10-2 to get an extra USB port, lost the 34 PC card slot, lower res. display, pain in the @$$ BT upgrade and a locked BIOS. So if you are thinking of upgrading from a S10 to the S10-2 don’t do it it’s not worth it you gain little and lose a lot.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:11:33 +0000

My guess is that Lenovo doesn’t care about releasing the S10-2 in the UK. The same goes for the T400s.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:50:22 +0000

I own them both and prefer the S10 for a number of reasons. First, I can add any mini PCI card to the S10. The S10-2 has the BIOS lock that Lenovo uses with other portables … you can only buy a card from them or you have to edit the BIOS or card firmware ID. Buggers. Second, there is a boat load of pooware on the S10-2 that I did not notice on the S10. Third, the drivers for the S10-2 won’t allow me to set the resolution to 1024×768 .. and move the screen up and down as the S10 will allow. This is a driver issue since it WILL allow you to do this right after you install the drivers but before you reboot. Once you reboot it the maximum resolution is 1024×600. It isn’t just aesthetics for me, I use one site that won’t run at all on the lower resolution.

By: Erwin

Erwin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:53:24 +0000

I was able to acquire one S10-2 for my wife yesterday. This little devil rocks! This one is already capable of doing a bluetooth connection. Once you have activated the software it already install the driver. I was able to pair my phone to this laptop and made good transfers. Can even use Internet connection using my phone as my modem via bluetooth connection. I haven’t tried just the SIM card yet if it will work here in the Philippines because ISP here are using USB devices to run the SIM for broadband connection but will try when I get back home.

By: BigKumaDog

BigKumaDog — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:02:37 +0000

There is a female connector under the keyboard directly under the A key of the keyboard when keyboard is removed. Does anyone know what that connector is for? Hoping a future bluetooth addition but the connector is larger than the S10’s bluetooth cables connector.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:29:13 +0000

So, when will the S10-2 finally be available in the UK? Time goes by so slowly…