Chinese PC giant Lenovo has rammed into notebook market with its two ultra portable laptops, IdeaPad S9 and IdeaPad S10, which support host of popular applications such as web browsing, email, music and other MS Office applications. The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 is a super-slim and highly portable laptop. It runs Intel Corp.’s Atom processor and Microsoft Windows XP. The 10.2-inch laptop comes with two USB ports, two speakers, built in webcam, a four-in-one multi card reader, WiFi connectivity and an Express Card slot. The keyboard is 85 percent of a full-function notebook PC’s keyboard. It also features an energy-efficient LED backlit display to ensure longer battery life. The IdeaPad S10 provides two configurations, the first being 512MB of memory and an 80GB hard drive and the second configuration having 1GB of memory and a 160GB hard drive.

First notebook PCs-Lenovo IdeaPad S9 and S10: [via]

If you’re lacking some storage space, and you don’t have a 1 TB Asus M70 Laptop you have two options, either add an extra hard drive to your desktop computer or if you like carrying your stuff around you can get an external hard drive. But now you’re in the situation of choosing a hard drive, and you have to consider that if you’re a PC user you need to get a hard drive with an USB2.0 port and if you’re a MAC user you need to get a hard drive with a firewire port.

But here comes the trick, what if you want to connect your hard drive across different computers that don’t have the same ports ? OWC now offers a solution for this problem, a hard drive that features 3 connecting ports: USB 2.0, Firewire 400 and Firewire 800, isn’t this sweet ? Now there’s no incompatibility, and to the list of features we have to add the 500 GB storing capacity and 5400 rpm of the unit.

The hard drive is available for $360, which some of you might find expensive, but cool gadgets are always in small packages and expensive

500GB External Hard Drive offeres both USB and Firewire connection: [Via CoolGadgets]