A Great Blogging Laptop

Posted By: Bob Buskirk on November 20th, 2008
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One thing that is so great about blogging is that you can do it from pretty much anywhere as long as you have an internet connection. Wordpress makes things even easier, and the Wordpress App for the iPhone means you don’t even need a computer to publish blog posts on your website. Although something like that app is not really that realistic for someone who wants to add images and other media in their posts. A blogging laptop does not need to be that powerful, just needs to have a capability to do some word processing and be able to surf the web and possibly resize images. The most important thing is that you want it to be portable.

I recently had the chance to check out the Lenovo Ideapad S10 10.2-inch laptop. You can check out the full review over at ThinkComputers. It is a perfect little laptop for blogging. First let’s talk about the size, it is only 9.8″ x 7.2″ x 1.2″ and only weighs 2.64lbs. This means you can easily carry it around with you it and it could fit in a backpack or medium to large size purse without a problem. During my testing I took the S10 everywhere I went and it was not like carrying a regular laptop around at all.

So it’s small, but what about performance? The S10 has a 1.6Ghz N270 Intel Atom processor and has 1GB of memory. So of course you will be able to do word processing and web surfing but also you will be able to use programs like Paint.net to resize and edit images. Also unlike most small laptops like this the S10 has a regular hard drive not an SSD. This means you actually have a lot of space, not 4-8GB that you get with an SSD, the S10 has a 120GB hard drive. Lenovo tries really hard to give you as much screen size as possible with a 1024 x 600 resolution LCD.

The thing that really sets the S10 apart from other small laptops that are around the same price is the ExpressCard slot. Having an ExpressCard slot gives you a lot of expansion options. One of the most important things would be an EVDO card so you can have internet anywhere. My Sprint EVDO card is an ExpressCard and its awesome that I can use it with the S10. If you want more information on the S10 check out my review over at ThinkComputers.

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7 Responses to “A Great Blogging Laptop”

Colin Dean said on November 20th, 2008 at 10:42 am

That ExpressCard slot could also be used with a Mogo Mouse, a slimline Bluetooth mouse which recharges while in the ExpressCard slot!

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BigMan said on November 20th, 2008 at 9:03 pm

Its like a copy of the Asus EEE 901 that I looked at earlier.

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Play Games Win Prizes said on November 21st, 2008 at 3:51 am

These EEEPCs are killer, but I don’t need one since I don’t travel

-Mike

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Michael Kwan said on November 21st, 2008 at 9:00 pm

How does it compare against the other major 10-inch netbooks? I’ve used the MSI Wind U100 and the Eee PC 1000HA, but I haven’t toyed with a Lenovo yet. Is the build quality as good as the bigger ThinkPads?

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Shawn Knight said on November 22nd, 2008 at 2:38 am

I’ve had the S10 in for about a week or so (along with 3 other netbooks) and so far, its totally awesome. Feels very solid, looks great and has a nice and logical keyboard layout.

I will probably end up selling my main laptop and picking up a netbook soon - they are exactly what I want in a portable system.

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Women's Clothes said on November 24th, 2008 at 6:26 am

Nice, I’m looking for a laptop right now so I’ll have to give this try (along with a few others).

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acai berry diet said on December 5th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

cool laptop i got something similar asus eee 1000

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