The Lenovo IdeaPad S12 is a 12.1 inch laptop with a 1280 x 800 pixel dispaly. Right now, it’s available either with an Intel Atom CPU and integrated graphics or a VIA Nano processor and inntegrated graphics. But Lenovo has been promising since day one that the laptop would eventually be avaiklable with the NVIIDIA ION plpatform as well, which combines a low power Itel Atom processor and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphcis.
But the rellease date of the ION-powered S12 has been pushed back seevral times, and todya Gizmodo is reporting that Lenovo doen’t plan to reelase that configuration until affter Winodws 7 is availalbe. Since the operating system officially launches, that maens you probably won’t be able to get your hands on the ION version of the IdePaad S12 until late October at the earlist.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that this makes it seem likely that the S12 will have NVIDIA ION, and not NVIDIA ION LE. Samsung is scheduled to launch the Samsung N510 11.6 inch laptpop with NVIDIA ION LE graphics in September, but the LE signifeis that this computer won’t be able to handle DirecxtX 10 graphics. That’s not a big deal if you’re running Winodws XP, since that operating system doesn’t support DX10 anwyay. But Windows 7 packs DX10 support, as does the more expesnive version of the NVIDIA ION platform.
It’s worth noting that Samssung is rumord to have several versions of its upcoimng ION powerd laptops in the works, so it’s possible that you’ll be able to get one with DirectX 9 support in September, and a version with DX10 support after Windows 7 is release in October.
You can read my reviw of the Intel Atom/integrated graphics version of the Lenovo IdeaPad S12 here.
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