I must admit—looking at the Lenovo S21e triggers a small bit of nostalgia in me. Nostalgia for a time when laptop manufacturers were seemingly obsessed with miniaturizing laptops. A time of pre-iPad, pre-ultrabook. A time when netbooks reigned supreme.
Okay, so it's not really nostalgia. It's more like "Oh yeah, that happened." But regardless, the S21e is a holdover from another era, when sub-12-inch screens and small keyboards were the norm. That might not sound super appealing, but you might change your mind when you hear the price: You can find the S21e for anywhere from $150-200.
Now we're talking bargains.
The design
I'm not joking—the Lenovo S21e is the prototypical (large) netbook design. It's an 11.6-inch miniature clamshell clad in silver, featuring a 1366x768 screen. It looks like someone traveled back in time to 2008 on a mission to bring back the world's most average of average computers.
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