Lenovo IdeaPad S12 with ION delayed until October

Despite the pre-order page just having gone live earlier today, we’ve just been informed that the Lenovo IdeaPad S12 with the Nvidia ION chipset has been delayed and it’s not by a few weeks, but rather by a few months, as it’s not expected to hit retail until October now.

From what we’ve been told this is a strategic business decision, whatever that means. There might even be some hardware changes to the IdeaPads S12 before it hits retail, or at least that’s our understanding from what we were told.

Another reason could be because Lenovo has decided to sit back and wait for Windows 7 to arrive, as this would make for an overall much more interesting system with better performance, at least compared to putting Windows Vista on it. Windows XP doesn’t really take advantage of Nvidia’s ION chipset and much of the enhanced functionality would be wasted.

This means that all of you that were eagerly waiting to get your hands on one, now have to wait even longer. It does sort of make sense to launch ahead of the Christmas holiday season, but right now it seems an awfully long way away. Lenovo might also miss out sales, with potential customers getting a different system instead.

We’ll keep you up to date if anything changes with regards to the availability.