14 DAY TRIAL // Lenovo is looking to breathe some new life into the netbook category in 2014, by adding a line-up which takes advantage of the most recent chip architecture.
Those of you who remember the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3s, a device released back in 2010, will surely recognize the design of the E10-30, because the two are quite similar visually.
The support page for the new lappy has already been set up on the Lenovo’s official website (via MobileGeeks) and although we don’t have many official pictures or renders, there are a few sketches of the machine we can share with you.
Judging by the information currently available online, the Lenovo E10-30 will be one of the traditional notebooks. The machine will adopt a compact look and a touch screen.
As for overall specifications, the IdeaPad S10 will arrive with a 10-inch display and will boast a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels with a quite large viewing angle.
Under the hood, Lenovo has added the most recent architecture Intel Bay Trail architecture with two or four cores, depending on the model. This includes chips like Intel Celeron N2806, N2815 and N2920 and up to the quad-core Intel Pentium N3520, which has a standard clock of 2.17GHz with Turbo speeds up to 2.42GHz.
The laptop is fitted with either 2GB or 4GB of RAM, depending on the customers’ respective needs. Furthermore, there’s a 320GB/500GB hard drive on board, USB 2.0, USB 3.0, Gigabit LAN, Bluetooth 4.0, SD card reader, VGA output and Ethernet port.
Depending on the model, the webcam can have either 0.3MP or 1MP and customers can opt for a battery with 2200 or 4400mAh capacity.
As for the keyboard, Lenovo uses the same AccuType technology we have been accustomed to seeing in the company’s laptop offerings.
The laptop will be offered in black and white versions and apparently can support either Linux, Android, Windows 8.1 or Windows 7.
We have no indication of how much the new netbook products will end up costing or when they are going to be released to the public, but given that the product overview page has already been set, it shouldn't take long.
Lenovo will probably make sure it prices the device very attractively, but at the moment we have to wait to see exactly how much that would be.
Will Lenovo manage to attract customers into purchasing a netbook in 2014?
