Lenovo drops IdeaPad S10 pricing across the board

A mere two days after launching a large capacity version of its multi-hued IdeaPad S10 netbook, Lenovo’s gone and chopped prices through and through, with specialty-color netbooks that used to retail for $439 landing at $359, and the boring black or white models retailing for $349, down from $399. Large capacity versions, with their fancy 1GB of RAM and 160GB hard drives go for $399 and $409 now, respectively. That’s a savings of $50 or $80 for all you math whizzes out there, which is great but Lenovo is certainly not the only one to be pushing down netbook price points to what one might call “recession levels.” Read