by Paul Miller, posted Jun 20th 2008 at 12:15PM "The Y Series 3000 laptops are now gone in place Y710 and 7510 Series IdeaPads " ---- I think you meant Y510 there.
I like Lenovo's 3000 series (typing on one, in fact).
*Side-mounted headphone/mic ports. Check. *USB x1 on left side, USBx3 on right side. 4 in total. Check. *Better feeling (and looking) keyboard than the majority of the competition. Check. *No irregularly-shaped keys on keyboard. A pet hate of mine. Check. *Page Up and Page Down keys next to arrow keys (a personal fave). Check. *Minimal tackyness, silver-painted plastic and embellishments compared to competition (tho certainly far from ideal but IMO far better than nearly all competing models): check.
So I'm sorry to see the 3000 series go. Tho the IdeaPads share some of the same features, some are gone, like the 4 USB ports.
To me there was no point spending more. Laptops really really start to face diminishing returns beyond this point.
Regarding the low-end Y510 IdeaPads: http://www-07.ibm.com/lenovoinfo/au/ideas/yseries/y510.html I like the 'rough' lid look. Beefed up the sound apparently, and more multimedia/touchy focus. Frameless monitor. VeriFace. Both Zzzz but par for the course in the copycat everybody-doing-the-same notebook market. On the 17inch models we have the ever-tacky lit blue halo and lit Lenovo logo. Oh yes. Just what I've always wanted. LOL. Good reason to avoid those, then. Tho they do give you the option for two hard drives there. Nice for a plug-bound desktop replacement.
The Galaxy Tab 10.1, much like its Limited Edition sibling that we reviewed last month, is ever-so-slightly thinner than the iPad 2, a slate that most sane individuals (and competitors, for that matter) would confess is the market leader today.
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by Paul Miller, posted Jun 20th 2008 at 12:15PM
"The Y Series 3000 laptops are now gone in place Y710 and 7510 Series IdeaPads
"
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I think you meant Y510 there.
I like Lenovo's 3000 series (typing on one, in fact).
*Side-mounted headphone/mic ports. Check.
*USB x1 on left side, USBx3 on right side. 4 in total. Check.
*Better feeling (and looking) keyboard than the majority of the competition. Check.
*No irregularly-shaped keys on keyboard. A pet hate of mine. Check.
*Page Up and Page Down keys next to arrow keys (a personal fave). Check.
*Minimal tackyness, silver-painted plastic and embellishments compared to competition (tho certainly far from ideal but IMO far better than nearly all competing models): check.
So I'm sorry to see the 3000 series go. Tho the IdeaPads share some of the same features, some are gone, like the 4 USB ports.
To me there was no point spending more. Laptops really really start to face diminishing returns beyond this point.
Regarding the low-end Y510 IdeaPads:
http://www-07.ibm.com/lenovoinfo/au/ideas/yseries/y510.html
I like the 'rough' lid look. Beefed up the sound apparently, and more multimedia/touchy focus. Frameless monitor. VeriFace. Both Zzzz but par for the course in the copycat everybody-doing-the-same notebook market. On the 17inch models we have the ever-tacky lit blue halo and lit Lenovo logo. Oh yes. Just what I've always wanted. LOL. Good reason to avoid those, then. Tho they do give you the option for two hard drives there. Nice for a plug-bound desktop replacement.