I just bought this laptop today at BestBuy for $700 after originally going there to get a Sony CW-series model ($800). Just to be clear, if you get it at BestBuy, the SL410 has a glossy screen, 4500MHD video, and no fingerprint reader. It has Windows 7 Professional, which is nice if you want the ease of using the built-in file encryption Home Premium doesn't have. I know I could have customized it through the Lenovo web site, but I wanted to get something today. The pre-loaded trial software isn't too annoying and doesn't seem to reduce boot time much at all that I noticed (still going to remove it). Intel graphics might be bad, but I don't play any modern games anyway. This video card actually plays full-screen Hulu movies in high-res and full-screen youtube HD content without skipping or dropping frames, something my HP "media laptop" (DV7-1135NR) couldn't do. Don't think you'll be able to play any game from the last couple years with it, but if you like the classic ibm/lenovo 1980s look and want a businessy feel and the ability to handle HD video playback/streaming (it wont play graphics-intensive games well, don't think you might be able to tweak it), it's a refreshing change from the (purely my opinion) boring HP/Toshiba/Sony/Apple laptops. The keyboard is nice (haven't used a "classic" ibm laptop, but it's much better than the HP) and it runs fairly cool too.
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I just bought this laptop today at BestBuy for $700 after originally going there to get a Sony CW-series model ($800). Just to be clear, if you get it at BestBuy, the SL410 has a glossy screen, 4500MHD video, and no fingerprint reader. It has Windows 7 Professional, which is nice if you want the ease of using the built-in file encryption Home Premium doesn't have. I know I could have customized it through the Lenovo web site, but I wanted to get something today. The pre-loaded trial software isn't too annoying and doesn't seem to reduce boot time much at all that I noticed (still going to remove it). Intel graphics might be bad, but I don't play any modern games anyway. This video card actually plays full-screen Hulu movies in high-res and full-screen youtube HD content without skipping or dropping frames, something my HP "media laptop" (DV7-1135NR) couldn't do. Don't think you'll be able to play any game from the last couple years with it, but if you like the classic ibm/lenovo 1980s look and want a businessy feel and the ability to handle HD video playback/streaming (it wont play graphics-intensive games well, don't think you might be able to tweak it), it's a refreshing change from the (purely my opinion) boring HP/Toshiba/Sony/Apple laptops. The keyboard is nice (haven't used a "classic" ibm laptop, but it's much better than the HP) and it runs fairly cool too.