@Gavin

> The other half of the world
> uses SI units you know.

Don’t tell them (US Americans) that they are “half of the world”… that’s what they think already while they are only ~5%… so 95% of the world are using SI (i.e. metric) units. Actually, only 3 countries aren’t using the metric system: U.S.A., Liberia, and Myanmar (source: http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/internat.htm )

From the article above:
“Lenovo tells us that some countries will have a 9-inch version sporting Linux”

tnkgrl, according to PCmag, “A 9-inch version of the S10 will be available overseas.”

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2327025,00.asp

The spec’s look interesting. I’d rather have 1280×800 resolution with a 10″ display. Any word on whether the RAM is SODIMM or Micro-DIMM? A 2GB Micro-DIMM stick will double the price of this device.

Overall the platform has potential. With a few design tweaks I’d be willing to pay 2-3X this price for a reliable, business-ready tablet with a similar form factor.

Want! If the entire unit was scaled down to use a 8.9″ screen it would be perfect… But if teh features and price are correct, wow

I kind of wish I’d been able to wait before buying a mini-notebook, but I went with the best available option for me at the time–the HP mini-note (loved the JK review of it, btw). It’s a good machine, but it sure does run hot, and I hate that it won’t open flat when it has the 6-cell battery on board. And it does a long time for windows to come back up after stand-by. Ah, well–no machine is perfect, I guess.

A pattern seems to be developing. A wonderful-looking machine is announced, at a wonderful price, for availability in the near future.

The launch date comes and goes, and no machine appears (at least, not in a way that ordinary folk can get their hands on it). Weeks or months later it appears, at a higher prices, and with a somewhat less wonderful performance than was announced.

So, I’m not getting too excited, not because it doesn’t look good.

“good American based websites would have had 1 man at the top convert the measurements so that everyone reading could understand. instead of having a bunch of readers at the bottom doing the converting”.

The other half of the world uses SI units you know. Try here:

http://www.onlineconversion.com

2.4 lbs (added to post). BTW, if you go to Google and enter “convert 1.1 kg to pounds” in the search bar you get the answer back. Works great.

thats quite small for a 10″ laptop, they must be making very efficient use of the bezel around the screen.

what does 1.1kg weigh in pounds?

but why is it, i hear about these mini laptop announcements almost daily but never actually SEE any readily available for sale? in the US, besides the EEE & HP where are they?!?! the Wind you can kinda almost get if you dont mind the 3-cell battery. but at this point most of these laptops are just PR announcements.

OK, conversion to inches has been added. Sorry but at 5 am my math wouldn’t work.

good American based websites would have had 1 man at the top convert the measurements so that everyone reading could understand. instead of having a bunch of readers at the bottom doing the converting.

Mike, when this was posted at 5 am there was no active link yet.

Well, my primary question nowadays concerning these subnotes is: Can OS X run on it?!

Why no link to a website, jk? And you should have de-metricized the dimensions for us un-metric Americans.