Comments on: Lenovo S10 first impressions

By: Mojmir

Mojmir — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:54:18 +0000

You have mentioned “wiping OKR partition”. How is it with the EBIOS? I replaced the disk completely but was not able to boot as it reports EBIOS load error. Is any way how to deal with this?

By: gracie

gracie — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:37:13 +0000

i just installed ubuntu 8.10 on my S10. everything works fine except for the ones you mentioned of course. however, i am having a problem with the window size, for example, if i launched the email client i cant click or see the buttons below…the window is too big for my resolution and i cant seem to adjust it properly. i tried to change resolutions, but i can only see 1 option. any thoughts? im thinking of installing netbook remix just to fix issues like this.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:15:59 +0000

Great review! I bought mine after reading this Lenovo S10 Review.

I agree with you, the laptop is plenty fast for what it is. I ended up wiping the HDD, installed XP Pro from a USB drive, then I installed Xubuntu from a USB drive. Xubuntu runs pretty well, but I don’t use Linux as my main OS so I haven’t had time to play with it much.

One huge tip I kinda discovered is to adjust your DPI to something like 82 or 76 and use the Arial font. This makes the text smaller, but still readable. That way, you get the most out of the limited 1024×600 screen space.

By: Christoffer Vikström

Christoffer Vikström — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:02:44 +0000

Hi!

Great little review there. Im thinking on buying a netbook and will install ubuntu on it, so this helps. I will use it on my way from/to work to shave some time off my workday. It’s nice to know some of the quirks beforehand, even though this netbook still seems the best candidate right now. Only missing 3G to make it complete.

Thanks again!

/Christoffer