Lenovo have finally begun shipping their new 12-inch NVIDIA ION-powered S12 Netbook in the U.S. for $599. The much-anticipated S12 was supposed to be the first ION-packing netbook out the gates, but was postponed till after the launch of Windows 7 last week.
Equipped with a 12.1-inch 1280 x 800 WXGA display, the S12 delivers a pinch more screen real estate than HP’s Ion-powered Mini 311 and includes a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 250GB HDD, b/g WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1.
The S12 can play back Full HD 1080p video and includes a full-size keyboard, a 1.3MP webcam, a 4-in-1 card reader, 3 x USB ports, HDMI-out, a 6-cell battery and of course the new Windows 7 (Home Premium) OS.
Lenovo’s IdeaPad S12 weighs in at 3-pounds and is available now (in black) direct from Lenovo for $599.
Update: Lenovo have added a second Ion-equipped S12 model for $649 that bumps memory to 3GB and storage to 320GB.
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Brad says:
October 28th, 2009 at 7:51 am
Wow $600 laptop that runs windows 7 with speed? Nice. Now only if the recession would end.
Portugal says:
October 28th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Does this netbook come with the slightly crippled LE version of the Ion chipset or does it have DirectX 10 support?
Mark says:
October 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
@Portugal
I believe it includes the full ION chipset. There has been no mention of it being the LE version.
Bob says:
October 28th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I was under the impression that if the netbook/nettop has a full version of windows 7, then the ion would be the full chipset, not the LE edition.
Solai says:
October 30th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Everything Good but Processor is atom Processor…
that not be acceptable