Completely correct, I have a White S10 which was preordered back on October and it came with MultiTouch and a 10.2in screen. WTF Engadget, you guys are seriously slipping lately.
duschendestroyer...Nice call as my current 10.2" S10 also has a multi-touch pad. Jon must be sour because he is not an early adopter that is enjoying this slick device. I did go ahead and toss a $20 2GB RAM stick in there esentially maxing out the the memory at 2.5 GB (2GB recognizeable). I'm considering droping another $25 for the bluetooth chip but might just go with the USB nub since I don't really need two USB ports anyways. Over the holidays I checked out the Lenovo VeriFace app on a friend's Y530 and found it kind of interesting. Other than the pink (totally kidding) color this is all I'd really be looking forward to with the new units. What do you think the chances are we can obtain and run the VeriFace app on our current units? Any other thoughts on other updates one might want to consider with their current S10?
Nice long post, Dave, but I am not sore I just don't like all the rush to get products out the door when Lenovo was already late to the game.
If they would've had all these features in the first release it would have made them stand out rather than be one of the vanilla atom netbooks out there.
You can already get Veriface for the current S10. If you go to Lenovo's web site and go to the Drivers section under Support, Veriface is listed as a download for the S10. I can personally verify that it DOES NOT work under XP though, so if you want to use it, you'll need to put Vista on the S10, which isn't too tough. Well, I guess I shouldn't say it doesn't work under XP, but the "log-in-using-your-face" feature doesn't work. I don't know if the other functionality of Veriface works under XP. I've run Vista on the S10 (I also have 2GB installed) and it actually isn't as bad as you might think. Vista was pretty responsive. You can use most of the XP drivers listed on the Lenovo web site in Vista, as well.
As for other "updates" for the current S10, I just ordered an 802.11n card to replace the internal 802.11g card. On some S10 sites, other people have done this upgrade so I'm pretty excited for it.
Oh, on a side note, if you do decide to install Vista and you find that you have one device that is listed as an Unknown Device in the Device Manager, chances are that is a Lenovo energy management device. If you download the energy management driver from the IdeaPad Y730 support site, that should fix your problem with that device.
Matt, I never thought about the whole XP vs Vista sign-in thing. Totally overlooked that so thanks for pointing that out. I was planning on loading Vista up on this thing since I have another copy of Vista Ultimate just lying around that's not being used. I read in a few other forums that others were having success with Vista running on the S10 too. I think I'll give it a try. So did you backup your S10 image before the upgrade?
No, I didn't bother backing up the disk image. I don't care about the whole onekey recovery junk. I can recover my own system and don't need to bother with additional software eating up hard drive space. Plus, with how often I try other operating systems, it's kind of pointless anyway.
Vista does run pretty well considering it's a low-powered laptop. I had trouble with Aero, but that was about it.
On a side note, I just finished upgrading my 802.11g adapter to 802.11n. The new adapter runs hotter than the old one, but other than that, we have a winner. Very easy upgrade. I love this little laptop...
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the lenovo s10 already has a 10.2" display and a multitouchpad
it's just a software/color update
Completely correct, I have a White S10 which was preordered back on October and it came with MultiTouch and a 10.2in screen. WTF Engadget, you guys are seriously slipping lately.
duschendestroyer...Nice call as my current 10.2" S10 also has a multi-touch pad. Jon must be sour because he is not an early adopter that is enjoying this slick device. I did go ahead and toss a $20 2GB RAM stick in there esentially maxing out the the memory at 2.5 GB (2GB recognizeable). I'm considering droping another $25 for the bluetooth chip but might just go with the USB nub since I don't really need two USB ports anyways. Over the holidays I checked out the Lenovo VeriFace app on a friend's Y530 and found it kind of interesting. Other than the pink (totally kidding) color this is all I'd really be looking forward to with the new units. What do you think the chances are we can obtain and run the VeriFace app on our current units? Any other thoughts on other updates one might want to consider with their current S10?
Nice long post, Dave, but I am not sore I just don't like all the rush to get products out the door when Lenovo was already late to the game.
If they would've had all these features in the first release it would have made them stand out rather than be one of the vanilla atom netbooks out there.
@ Dave -
You can already get Veriface for the current S10. If you go to Lenovo's web site and go to the Drivers section under Support, Veriface is listed as a download for the S10. I can personally verify that it DOES NOT work under XP though, so if you want to use it, you'll need to put Vista on the S10, which isn't too tough. Well, I guess I shouldn't say it doesn't work under XP, but the "log-in-using-your-face" feature doesn't work. I don't know if the other functionality of Veriface works under XP. I've run Vista on the S10 (I also have 2GB installed) and it actually isn't as bad as you might think. Vista was pretty responsive. You can use most of the XP drivers listed on the Lenovo web site in Vista, as well.
As for other "updates" for the current S10, I just ordered an 802.11n card to replace the internal 802.11g card. On some S10 sites, other people have done this upgrade so I'm pretty excited for it.
Oh, on a side note, if you do decide to install Vista and you find that you have one device that is listed as an Unknown Device in the Device Manager, chances are that is a Lenovo energy management device. If you download the energy management driver from the IdeaPad Y730 support site, that should fix your problem with that device.
Matt, I never thought about the whole XP vs Vista sign-in thing. Totally overlooked that so thanks for pointing that out. I was planning on loading Vista up on this thing since I have another copy of Vista Ultimate just lying around that's not being used. I read in a few other forums that others were having success with Vista running on the S10 too. I think I'll give it a try. So did you backup your S10 image before the upgrade?
@Dave -
No, I didn't bother backing up the disk image. I don't care about the whole onekey recovery junk. I can recover my own system and don't need to bother with additional software eating up hard drive space. Plus, with how often I try other operating systems, it's kind of pointless anyway.
Vista does run pretty well considering it's a low-powered laptop. I had trouble with Aero, but that was about it.
On a side note, I just finished upgrading my 802.11g adapter to 802.11n. The new adapter runs hotter than the old one, but other than that, we have a winner. Very easy upgrade. I love this little laptop...