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- markusfarkus, on 06/16/2009, -2/+27They won't.
- JCH897, on 06/16/2009, -7/+28Try to compete with that, Apple.
- nertil1, on 06/16/2009, -2/+16Lenovo makes some of the best laptops all around. I myself have the Y510 and I love it.
- TheUngod, on 06/16/2009, -0/+12A user named boozedrinker being snooty and talking about class. I love irony.
- TheUngod, on 06/16/2009, -0/+12I was waiting for the /s but I didn't see it. Was this an actual serious post?
- dmcbride6, on 06/16/2009, -0/+11We bought this for a family member 2-3 weeks ago. A VERY solid laptop. For a consumer laptop - it's very durable (I'd love to have the thinkpad roll cages show up in the ideapads though)
For the record - even if you decide to use vista on it, it still flies. - welestgw, on 06/16/2009, -1/+10That's what he said.
- krisrm, on 06/16/2009, -2/+9I'm thinking his point was more along the lines of "Apple has nothing to compete with that." Which they don't: you neglected the price tag on your little analysis there. Apple has condemned cheap notebooks and netbooks, though they seem to be one of the few things with upward sales in the PC market. Average consumers have difficulty seeing differences between "a laptop" and "a powerful laptop," which is why sub $500 laptops/netbooks have really taken off.
- RaulMuadDib, on 06/16/2009, -0/+7What?
- Narishma, on 06/16/2009, -0/+6He says he doesn't have a Lenovo laptop, so it's perfect for traveling as you don't have to carry anything.
- chrislewis, on 06/16/2009, -0/+6For those who want a little more portability, check out the (rumoured?) G430
- MacParrot, on 06/16/2009, -0/+5As compared to...?
- MicrosoftBob, on 06/16/2009, -1/+66 lbs?!
Are people so physically weak these days that carrying around 6 lbs on their back or in their lapbag is somehow considered a great burden? - Elranzer, on 06/16/2009, -0/+5Where did it say it was a netbook?
- srodolff, on 06/16/2009, -0/+5And I was seriously eyeing netbooks......
- Elranzer, on 06/16/2009, -0/+5Lenovo is a Chinese company, so go figure...
- greenvortex, on 06/16/2009, -1/+5I got four of these for our office and installed XP SP3. Very satisfied with the result. XP Drivers: http://consumersupport.lenovo.com/en/DriversDownlo ...
- inactive, on 06/16/2009, -0/+4he is going to hate you pretty soon. The intel drivers are borked for the newer chipset.
- Type1, on 06/16/2009, -4/+7My cousin just bought this a week ago. Pretty solid notebook and I deleted Vista off from it and installed Linux Mint 7 on it and it just flies. He's leaving soon back to Phoenix, otherwise I would of installed Windows 7 had he waited.
- asgardshill, on 06/16/2009, -2/+5Sweet box for under $500.
- datdamonfoo, on 06/16/2009, -0/+3Apple manufacturing number 1 in all of Kazakhstan!
http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Admits_White_MacBook_s ... - MicrosoftBob, on 06/16/2009, -0/+3I've got a 5yo R51 that has been an absolute tank. It also runs Win7 nicely, albeit without most of the gui enhancements.
- inactive, on 06/16/2009, -0/+3dont own a lenovo but i have 7 year old IBM< thinkpad r40e and its still running strong. Hell if i can find a 1gb ram module for it, i might just try installing windows 7 on it. I am so getting a ***** mouse netbook as soon as they come out. Come on lenovo. Dont let us geeks hanging/
- stuffradio, on 06/16/2009, -0/+2Couple days after getting my refurbished Core 2 Duo Mac Mini it crashed. Where is the stability in that?
- SteveMax, on 06/16/2009, -0/+2I have a G4 800 laptop and a single-core AMD64 desktop. My desktop runs Gentoo Linux: it has to compile every single piece of software that is installed. This is annoying at some points (like when there are new KDE + X + OpenOffice releases, the machine can be busy for days at a time), but mostly it works.
After comparing the compilation time of, say, root (http://root.cern.ch/ ) on my desktop and my PPC laptop, I say it takes a completely insane person to use a full Gentoo desktop on a G4 800. This simple compilation takes five minutes on my single-core 2.2GHz desktop, and over an hour on my G4. It'd take weeks to get an usable minimal system.
To be fair, there is a difference between the machines that can bias those results. My laptop has 640MB of RAM; the desktop has only 512MB, and still compiles stuff faster. gcc is certainly more optimized for Linux and amd64 than for Leopard and ppc, but that doesn't explain the difference at all, and makes me sure that I can guarantee you: a 800MHz PPC does NOT run circles around a 2.2GHz x86, even if you compared Leopard on the PPC with Windows ME on the x86. The raw capabilities of the chips simply prevent that from being a possibility.
The 800MHz G4 does run circles around a ~2.0GHz Pentium 4, though. But again, what doesn't? - mGARANDEUR1, on 06/16/2009, -0/+2I don't know about Lenovo's consumer line, but their busniess notebooks have always been extremely reliable. Hard black plastic and metal hinges just give them that classic "all business" look.
- Hend, on 06/16/2009, -0/+2I bought a T500 a few weeks ago and it pretty damned good for gaming. I suggest buying one from the outlet store for a discounted price (40-50% off).
- cdbeshore, on 06/16/2009, -0/+2bought my wife the n500 from tigerdirect for $399 when it was on sale. solid dual core laptop at a netbook price. she is happy with it. lenovo's are good laptops.
- krisrm, on 06/16/2009, -0/+2I love the direction netbooks have pushed the notebook industry. Now, instead of ripping off consumers who don't have much to spend, they're starting to target the lower price range. This looks like a great notebook for, say, someone on a student's budget :)
- BoutDemCanes91, on 06/16/2009, -0/+2Hey, that's the notebook i'm on right now!! I actually won this at a high school grad party hosted by the school. I'm pretty happy with it so far, the only complaints I have are the volume buttons, they lower/raise the volume way too slow, so I have to use the Fn+ F1/F2 to change the volume.
For a basic pc, it nice, it didn't come with any stupid free trials for pointless software so i didn't have to spend a lot of time setting it up for my taste. - Thumper13, on 06/17/2009, -1/+3Price wise dummy.
- sodade, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1***** yes. I tried to use the netbook I bought for my wife the other day and that trackpad thing is lame. Now I have to buy a mouse.
I will never ever ever buy a laptop without a trackpoint. - morepowerr, on 06/16/2009, -1/+2this is my response.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 ... - Sloi, on 06/16/2009, -1/+2Wasn't the Earth made in China?
- Carlix, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1You think most computer parts are from USA?
- popfrogs2, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1Intel fails at graphics drivers, I feel sorry for anyone with a GMA or other Intel graphics chipset.
- srs2000, on 06/16/2009, -1/+2In my experience... The quality is not the same since they became Lenovo....
I can't say I would buy another laptop made by Lenovo... - popfrogs2, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1Suspending with Linux is nothing short of a miracle, but there are IBM Thinkpad tweaks in most distros that make it possible. Funny how they only apply to IBM/Lenovo machines though, it's almost like IBM participated a little.
The best Lenovo I've seen (netbook) is the S10-2 which just got revised. Good size, nice construction, decent screen and the typical awesome IBM keyboard. - jman82s, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1I bought one of these when they first showed up on the market. It's a very sturdy, well-built machine and it runs cool and quiet (about 41 degrees idle at ambient temp).
However, the viewing angle on mine is HORRIBLE. If your eye level deviates just an inch or two from the "sweet spot" everything is washed out. Also, the touchpad is placed too far away from the keyboard, so you actually have to hold your hand sideways if you want to rest it on the case. It's very uncomfortable. It's a decent laptop, but it has its shortcomings. Hard to complain with these specs for $430 though.
My favorite part is it suspends correctly with Linux. - inactive, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1Sweet zombie jesus. That is a sweet deal
- damnshoes, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1But can this laptop kill a bird?!
- shadowspawn, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1Posting on a t43. The only thing I wish is that the t4x's had the same resolution as the t2x's.
But they'll last a solid drop and a 100f ambient temp with the metal keyboard/frame option.
Still have a t42 that runs off of two usb flash drives with xubuntu and openSwan for work. The temp was always too much for the hard drive, found two 8g usb's for cheap that were tiny and experimented. Can't melt the thing in Texas's heat in the field, so I swap for that when I'm out in the hell. - Taiyoryu, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1Unless it's going to serve as a desktop replacement, even as a 6 lb notebook, that computer is a brick.
- alexkorova, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1How is it different than a regular laptop? It's cheap.
- dmcbride6, on 06/16/2009, -1/+2heh. title says Note, not Net.
- Sneezyx, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1If that were all they were carrying, you might be right. But they're usually carrying other things, too. Think, MSB, think!
- shadowspawn, on 06/16/2009, -1/+2There's no ***** trackpoint.
If it had a trackpoint, I wouldn't have bought a used IBM Thinkpad to replace my last IBM Thinkpad, I'd have bought this.
I need my damn trackpoint. I'm tired of this Lenovo's ***** with disregarding those that use both. Hell, I have different nipple cover replacements depending on what I'm doing. Some indented, some a literal point, some the smooth nub, some the textured nub.
I DEMAND my trackpoint. - dalittle, on 06/16/2009, -1/+2Does it have the magnesium case? Loved that on the IBM Thinkpad T42.
- krisrm, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1It's a non-transferable OEM key, in all likelihood. So, to answer your question, a really desperate moron.
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