Didn't bother with that and unticked it from the basket before I ordered. Didn't need it.

At least they got back to you quick.

When I was emailed to say it had been despatched it actually came from another company (box.co.uk) but they don't list it on their site.

Phil

Didn't bother with that and unticked it from the basket before I ordered. Didn't need it.

At least they got back to you quick.

When I was emailed to say it had been despatched it actually came from another company (box.co.uk) but they don't list it on their site.

Phil

Looks like there the same company. There details are the same when you do a whois search in Nominet.

On the confirmation email it says it will be billed on your card as "box" the other name is just a trading name.

Hoping it should be her by begining of next week, i had to ring them to clarify the postcode section on the account as we dont have such wonderful things here and she said it should be four days to Dublin.

Thanks for the heads up...its just what ive been looking for.

K:)

According to the spec it only has one memory slot with a max capasity of 2gb, how did you get yours up to 3gb?

Cheers

Kit

It is perhaps 2GB soldered to the board and 1 empty slot

It has 1GB built into the board then 1 slot that will take a 2GB stick. Which gives you 3!

Phil

Ahh i see that old trick....so i take that the slot only has 1gb in it when it arrives? Il get onto crucial then for an order

Just checked the tracking number and its out for delivery in Dublin this morning!!...Good going to say i orderd it at 3pm on thurs!!

K:)

Yes it came with a 1GB stick installed in the slot.

Yeh just had a look on crucial and they're pretty reasonable. £23.99 for a 2GB stick.

I was lucky in that I just happened to have a stick laying around that I scrounged from a friends laptop that was fed a pint of water!

Just should it to my brother in the office and he waants one now as well!!....you should be charging commission!!

Fired it up and ar*ed about with it for a while and all seems good the setup took all of about three minutes...the free bullguard antivirus was a bit of a pain so scrapped it and went with the mcafee that was already installed free for a year.

Just doing the order for crucial now

K:)

Haha.

Cool. Glad you and your brother like it!

I found it had rather less bloatware installed than most laptops these days which was good.

If you can, create a disk image to an external drive and make a recovery drive in case it goes wrong as you don't get a windows disc obviously. My disk image took up about 80gb and I used an old 256mb flash drive for the recovery disc.

Phil

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In case anyone is interested I have just fitted a 3G mini pci-e card into this laptop.

Bought it from china, taiwan or hong-kong or something

It's a Sierra Wireless MC8781 which is actually a USB device in a mini pci-e form as the slot on these I am led to believe only supports USB and not full pci-e capabilities.

It's not normally available on it's own but is pulled from an 881U USB modem.

Came with a little "U" antenna that's not too bad but a bit flaky in weak areas. Getting over 4MB/s at the moment though on Three.

The sim card goes in the slot that is built into the motherboard by the way.

I had to put a little (tiny!) piece of insulation tape over pin 20 of the card though to get it to work. Still don't know why but people reporting it works with wifi cards so thought I would give it a go and it worked. It wouldn't detect it at first but then picked it up straight away with the tape on!

Just thought I would share that in case anyone was interested. Might be useful even for a different laptop model if you're using a dongle and sick of it sticking out the side (like me!)

Phil

Just ordered one these for the house, cheers Phil

Just what I'm after.

What size/spec 2gb stick do I need mate ? Might as well upgrade now as memery price is on the floor

Dont know why they were offering free bullguard with this as it comes with free 12 months McAfee installed!!

Tis still working ok but il have to go in a reset the updates as theyre coming in nearly every day and wanting to re-start the machine every time!!...another job for tonight as the memory arrived from Crucial this morning

K:)

Cool. Glad to see they're proving so popular!

Still loving mine and working great.

In regards to the memory:

http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/listparts.aspx?model=IdeaPad%20S12%20%28nVidia%20Graphics%29

There you go. Probably a decent place to get it from too. Only £23.99 but don't know what any other places.

Phil

Have had to turn the auto updates off as it was configuring windows every time i turned it on then doing a reboot!!..pain in the ar*e...will just a manual one every few weeks Havent put the memory in yet as i cant find my wee screwdriver anywhere!!

K:)

These things are great, got mine yesterday, what a flyer !!!

Nothing has slowed it yet, not even sure if I'll bohter upgrading the ram for now.

Cheers for the recco Phil

Yeh I'm suprised really how the little old Atom holds up considering it's relatively slow fsb, small cache and only hyperthreaded and not dual core.

Well chuffed with mine and don't really think you can complain at the price.

For the first time today I ran the battery down to where it turned itself off. Never used it long enough before on battery to where it needed charging.

Phil

Mine shows as two cores in task manager and device manager, or is this trickery to make think it DC??

If, as Phil says, it's an Atom with HT on-board and enabled, then yes - it will show up as two CPU processes in Task Manager.

Think of HT as virtual dual-core

I recently bought an Advent Vega Tablet PC, ( £250) It has Android 2.2 & it came with case & screen protector , all i will say is what a find, its quick, streams You Tube & bbc Iplayer & 4OD without issues, & has a really long battery life ( managed 8 hrs from charged to 5% ) doing various tasks,

It does virtually everything my HP netbook does ( Pavilion Entertainment), except power my external drives ( can plug them in )

It certainly is HT'd.

Here's the intel info link if you're interested. It's an older generation N270.

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=36331

As wardy says it's like a virtual dual core. It has one core but two "threads" for the data to flow through the processor so it can do 2 things at once although notthe same as a dual core as both things have to go through the processor at the same time and not independant of each other like on a dual core. Something like that anyway! lol

About the Advent tab's. Have seen those a few times and they seem good for the price. Would sooner have one of those to an iPad and pocket the money I would have saved! But then again I don't like Apple, it's iOS and love Android so it has the edge for me.

Phil

Cheers again Phil

Didn't really have chance to read up on these, I just trusted your judgement

Lol.

I did a lot of reading up and looking into reviews for all sorts. Think I had about 5 other definates before I settled on this model.

Oh yeh. If you want the latest nVidia graphics drivers (lenovo have really old ones on their site and the pre-installed ones were ancient on mine) then here is what to do.

Go to the nvidia site and click download drivers.

Then in the boxes to select the product type etc select ION, then ION (desktops), Graphics drivers, Windows 7 32bit and click search. Download the one it shows.

Took me a while of searching etc to find that it comes under the desktop not notebooks... strangely!

Phil

Ok so here's a follow up again on this as I have had a revelation with it today.

I had a couple of problems with the wifi and it refused to work point blank. Fresh Windows 7 install later and still no wireless finally it sprung to life but at the same time I realised that without the Lenovo "energy management" software installed the battery was lasting much longer!

So I then did a full restore from a system image on my externa drive and wireless was still working so un-installed the energy management software. The one down side to this is that the on-screen icons for volume and wireless no longer show but the big plus is that the battery lasts longer. Been using it on and off since about 2pm today once for about 3 & 1/2 hours solid, then an hour when I got home and now it's been on for about 30 mins and showing 1 hour and 8 minutes on the battery.

Just then use the windows 7 built in "power saver" profile and think it triggers power saving for the CPU and GPU.

Just thought I would share that.

Phil

Another victory for non-bloatware then

Good work Phil

Still tempted by one of these!