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On first inspection, you could be forgiven for mistaking Lenovo’s tiny IdeaPad S205 for a netbook. It has the same small footprint and 11in screen that we’re used to seeing, but look a little deeper and it’s clear this is an evolution of the traditiona...

The next evolution of the netbook - it might lack the visual flair of its rivals, but the IdeaPad S205 gets everything else right...
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The Lenovo IdeaPad S205 is a small and light laptop, but in order to keep this machine highly portable, some compromises have been made.At just 1.4kg and with a dinky 11.6-inch screen, the IdeaPad S205 looks more like a netbook than a laptop. It's desi...

Light and portable, Good battery life, 500GB hard drive...

Limited performance, Compact design means usability suffers...
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If you’re after something that’s easy to carry around but has enough power to deal with tasks beyond the everyday then the Lenovo IdeaPad S205-1038 is well worth considering. The cost of £340 certainly makes it very attractive, but there’s more to the...

Bridging the gap between netbook and laptop, the Lenovo IdeaPad S205-1038 comes in at a very competitive price even if it does lack the raw power of some of the competition. If you’re after something highly portable but need to do more than send a few...
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If you sometimes have difficulty sorting out Lenovo's ultraportable and netbook options, that's not surprising. Take the Lenovo IdeaPad S205: it has an 11.6-inch, 1366-by-768-resolution LED-backlit display and integrated webcam, configured with the AMD...

But you can uninstall the unnecessary apps, and overall, the Lenovo IdeaPad S205 shapes up as a very appealing, somewhat consumer-oriented netbook. While it may be a tad pricey for a netbook (depending on where you buy), its superb design features and...
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The 11.6 inch standard is one of those form factors that blur the boundaries between netbook and notebook and many users go for this standard because the respective machines usually pack much better hardware than the usual 10 inch netbooks and are not muc...

The S205 is a decent entry for the mainstream notebook market, as it packs AMD's latest Fusion CPU and had HD graphics. The build, although from plastic, is pretty good and the keyboard feels much better than the ones on more expensive machines. But the...
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technoodling.net Updated: 2016-12-14 21:42:58
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Irwin Allen Rivera loves his wife's cooking so much he's now twice the man he used to be. He and his wife maintain www.storiesaboutph.com, where you can read the best short fiction in English, by Filipino authors, for free. Irwin's English essay won a Don...

Fits in almost any bag: you can bring this anywhere. Very light, despite the seeming bulky thickness, Good keyboard, despite the size, Suprisingly good sound, for a small thing, Dedicated switch to turn off WiFi, to save on battery and shorten boot up tim...

Small screen, you may have to bump up the fonts or the resolution. But that might limit the number of rows and colums you'll see on a spreadsheet, or prevent a wholepage view on a document from being useful, Keyboard not backlit, so either you get a USBpo...
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