What are the features of the Lenovo Ideapad s12 Netbook?
It’s shaping up to be quite the month for Lenovo. Just weeks after it unveiled a refreshed version of its IdeaPad S10 netbook (understandably deemed the S10-2), the company is dropping yet another new rig on the world. Today, the IdeaPad S12 came to light, bringing with it the title of world’s first netbook with NVIDIA’s Ion technology. How significant will this be in the netbook world? If we had to guess today, we’d say “very.” If you’ll recall, NVIDIA’s Ion is a new chipset that aims to provide 1080p capabilities to otherwise underpowered and low-cost machines. It’s the same technology that launched in Acer’s Aspire Revo nettop, and the same technology that recently shipped in a Zotac mainboard. Most netbooks today ship with lowly integrated graphics that can’t handle multimedia at 720p or higher and cannot run any of the latest 3D gaming titles. Thus, most netbooks are stricken to handle only Office-type tasks and Web browsing. Lenovo’s IdeaPad S12 promises to be the first netbook t
