UK Netbook Review

Lenovo’s new Edge 220 is a thin and light laptop, occupying the space between a netbook and a fully fledged laptop. This thin and light, however, is pushing the boundaries of the thin and light space thanks to its unusually sized 12.5 inch display. The notebook packs more power than most thin & lights, thanks to an Intel core i5-2537M processor. Lenovo is now taking orders for the notebook for $749 and up in the US (UK pricing not avail. yet).

The Lenovo ThinkPad X120e is a business class thin and light laptop with an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display and an AMD E-350 dual core processor, and as befittingly to the Thinkpad name, it’s easy to upgrade.  To remove the back panel on the X120e just unscrew the three screws and a large panel [...]

Intel answer to the one laptop per child project (OLPC XO Laptop) is the Classmate PC.  It’s student-oriented netbook that’s  semi-rugged to  stand up to the wear and tear of a primary school environment and a student backpack.   Around 3 million computers based on the Classmate PC design have been deployed in schools around the [...]

Last we heard Lenovo had delayed the launch of the ThinkPad X120e business netbook until March, but surprise – it popped up on their US site today. The Lenovo ThinkPad X120e is now available for purchase for $399 and up. That gets you a 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, a 1.5 GHz AMD E-240 single core processor, AMD Radeon 6310 graphics, 2GB of DDR3 memory, a 250GB hard drive and a 3 cell, 40 W/h battery. The laptop comes standard with 802.11b/g/n WiFi.

Brad, at Liliputing, got a chance to check out the new  IdeaPad S100 today.  This new netbook is Lenovo’s fourth generation netbook, and doesn’t look to be much different than the model’s that Lenovo previously put out. The main differences are a new keyboard design and the fact that the new model will be available [...]