The Chinese juggernaut began their pre-sales of Lenovo IdeaPad S100. Initially it is expected the model with the Atom processor N455. Intel Atom N570 will come later.

Lenovo has officially unveiled the Lenovo IdeaPad S100 in January 2011. And 'these hours at the news that Amazon has begun pre-sales, although previous information would have wanted the netbooks already on the shelves since last March. At a starting price of $ 329.99, you can get your hands on the model equipped with a 10-inch LED backlit 1,024 x 600 pixel resolution and Atom processor N455.

The netbook has 1 GB of DDR3 RAM and has a 250 GB storage space provided by a traditional hard drive. The operating system chosen by the producer is the starter version of Windows 7. The keyboard is 90% full size AccuType and should ensure a good ergonomic typing. And 'flanked by a touchpad, however, rather small in size, with no physical buttons selection. The device is powered by a lithium ion battery that, according to the manufacturer's statements, should provide a range close to five hours per charge.

Nothing particularly new as regards the design, in line with other models of the IdeaPad. Lenovo S100 measures 280 x 174 x 15-20.2 mm and weighs about 1 kilogram. These qualities give it, as it should be, great portability. A look at the netbook lets you find on the left side of the screen, the start button and a button called QS devoted to the launching QuickStart.

As we anticipated in this news , the Chinese giant plans to introduce models equipped with more powerful dual-core Intel Atom processor N570-based platform and PineTrail. Also remember that during the last Computex 2011 in Taipei, was shown a variant of the Lenovo IdeaPad S100 equipped with operating system Meego.