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piratePenguin:
What's peoples opinions on these? What do you normally recommend for a laptop?

I'm thinking about spending 600-800 quid on something that is well-above netbook performance. Lenovo has a pretty sweet sale on at the moment, and these are catching my attention:
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/ieweb/LenovoPortal/en_IE/special-offers.workflow:ShowPromo?LandingPage=/All/EMEA/Landing_pages/Promos/Ideapad-laptops-for-home-and-home-office

Important things for me are noise (I'm using a HP laptop atm and I hate the sound of fans going mental) and lightness and portability. Definetly could see me going down the netbook road again and instead building a brute of a machine for about 600 quid in 6 months.

Whats your opinion on lenovo laptops? Are there other laptops you could recommend to my situation?

Thanks

WMD:
My dad has one of the first ThinkPads made by Lenovo.  Pretty good machine, solid as a rock, not very noisy.

I've no experience with Lenovo's other product lines.

7031:
I'll probably get beaten to death for saying this and it's not exactly a netbook, but I have an Acer Aspire 5553g that I got for £538 and it's damn good. Pretty much silent, not exactly light but light enough that I'm able to take it to college with me every day.

Specs are as follows:
15.6" display, 1366x768
AMD Phenom II X4 Mobile
ATi Mobility Radeon 5470 - 512MB VRAM (also has an integrated ATi Mobility Radeon 4250)
4GB RAM
320GB HDD

Might not be what you're looking for, but it's a pretty good laptop in my opinion (although those Lenovo laptops look damn nice, but in my case I was on a strict budget - £540 in my case).

adiment:
I bought somebody this lenovo based just on looks (was dirt cheap too):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834146578

The build quality was a lot better than I expected and that weak CPU was able to pull all non-HD video and Win7 and Ubuntu Netbook.

Lead Head:
I've heard good things about them. It seems Lenovo stayed fairly true to keeping the ThinkPad (idea pad now?) line to the high quality standards IBM set.

I know a couple of people with Acers, and they seem pretty pleased with them.

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