Lenovo’s IdeaPad S12 will be hitting Japan on October 22nd, along with Windows 7. As usual Lenovo isn’t delivering anything outwardly sexy here, but the S12 has some decent enough specs.

It will come with an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics card for portable gaming, an Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor, a 12.1″ display at 1,280 x 800 resolution, 2GB RAM, a 250GB hard drive, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, HDMI output, a few USB ports and a memory card reader. It will retail for around $760 in Japan and should be about $200 less when available in the states.

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Two segments in the computer industry are growing robustly despite the economic downturn around the globe. Those two segments are netbooks and all-in-one desktops. In fact, IDC expects the all-in-one category alone to grow by 12.4% from 2008-2013. Today Lenovo added a new all-in-one to its line called the C100, and it’s cheap.

The C100 will be available this month with prices starting at $399. The little rig gets an 18.5-inch LCD with a wide aspect ratio that is only 2-inches thick and houses all the hardware the typical PC has. Basic machines get an Intel Atom 230 single-core CPU.

One optional CPU is offered, an Intel Atom 330 dual-core. Other features of the machine include a 160GB HDD, 1GB of RAM and Intel GMA 950 graphics. The little rig runs Windows XP, but you should be able to get it with Windows 7 too next month.

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