Lenovo gazes into its netbook crystal ball, predicts Windows 7, 3G, blue skies with a chance of rain
By Tim Stevens 
posted May 12th 2009 9:38AM
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Sounds great hope it's true and not vapourware.
If only my hauppauge 2250 tv tuner would work properly in windows 7 x64! Argh!
I wish they would predict Ion with an Atom 330 in a Lenovo S10-3.
SOLD.
a 3g netbook-call doesnt sound so cool as a phone-call ! still with SSD drives, touch screens and maybe a projector, netbooks are better than some 300$ ebook reader
Don't we already know all this? What's the prediction?
Seriously... everyone reading Engadget "predicted" this. I predict that technology will evolve! I predict that Windows 7 will release...! Riveting.
If the screen is more than 10 and the price above $400 then it is not a Netbook for me anymore but a laptop!
seriously, old school laptops were 12-14"
Poor Linux can't get a break these days.
Nope, but they did get some recognition. Although tbh in most consumers minds linux is a "dumbed" down OS. Sad predicament and with windows 7 being so resource savvy while maintaining its strong software backing we probably wont see as many Linux netbooks in the next year.
It's sad, this was Linux's chance to shine...it's chance to show the world what it was made of. Instead, all the netbook manufacturers decided to put a dumbed down version of Linux on them with their own unique little twists hoping to have some kind of an edge over the competition. In the end they blew it because now Windows is standard and their chance to reign supreme over the netbooks with their gimmicks is dead and so is Linux.
@inksy
What? They made the thing USABLE for the average consumer. Had they installed a standard Ubuntu distro without those tweaks, that enormous return rate on Linux netbooks would have been undoubtedly higher.
Linux is still too nerdy to go mainstream. Period.
Well, I never thought I will say this but I wish Android all the success. Since Android is linux based, I hope it gives Win7 a good fight.
Am no mac fan, but, macbook air is the standard form factor for netbooks
The race among all 'assemblers' will be to reach that form factor, which will also give them pricing power in the short run.
Prediction: Dell will be the first one to reach there, by end of 2009
I wish I were big
good work w/ the graphic, Engadget. I
And I wish I could get Elizabeth Perkins.
Yea this is definitely a title/picture win
What's the point of netbook, weren't they suppose to be small and used for internet surfing. Now they're just big crappy laptops. No thanks. I'm never considering a netbook. Nokia made the internet tablet...something that is pocketable and easy for surfing. But if you are going to get a big device, you might as well get a good, powerful laptop...that can serve as a desktop even.
when they say blue sky do they mean blue sky of death?
I would like a Net book ever so slightly bigger then the Vaio-P but with actual power so its useful. I'd like a vaio-P with good CPU power E-ink raised keypad and touch screen.
Looks like someone has been to Webster Hall recently (Fischerspooner?).
No atom 330 projected? Please put one of these in a netbook. Throw in ION, dvd-rw, 2gb of memory, an HD screen, and everyones netbook dreams have come true.
(Right now one of all of these options are available on one netbook or the other, lets just put them together, huh?)
Android is no good to me on a netbook. Putting a phone based OS on a netbook turns a serious tool into something no more then a toy. I don't see much reason for doing this other than it may possibly improve android phone software on the back-end.
What Lenovo needs to do is update the Ideapad U110 to either a dedicated graphics chip or if they want to save cost integrated nvidia or ati graphics chip. Give us the C2D CULV chip, up the ram support to 6gb(4gb if 6 not possible). Then keep the price under $1000(like newegg is currently selling the U110 for, just to keep it competitive with the AMD Neo chip.
wasnt Zoltar the evil guy from Battle of the Planets?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/battle/gallery/images/340/zoltar.jpg
I bet he also predicts that Windows 7 will be more like Vista than it's not..