I purchased this laptop because I felt that the company that purchased IBM’s PC division must be a good one and their product offering should be good. This view was reinforced by the use of the laptop. Intel Core Duo processor T2300, with 4GB of expandable RAM, conveniently placed ports, 15.4" screen which do not look like a negative from sides, integrated webcam and biometric reader, cool looks and what not !
But at points I felt to throw away this laptop because of very poor battery, after six months I encountered the problems with this piece, battery was dead (not even charging), inbuilt camera stopped working, fingerprint reader started behaving like anything and LAN port was defective. So I approached the service centre in Ahmedabad, and I must say, , the service is excellent, they replaced it without asking a single question (warrenty period of 1 year).
But the battery faulted again after 3 months of replacement, now I m furious and just went there and told them to replace that piece of junk. However this time I managed to change the speakers, touchpad and fingerprint reader also (although they are not giving any problem) along with the battery. The service center told me that the previous batteries were manufactured by sony and were defective. This time they gave me a sanyo battery and I must say it is giving me a life of 2 hrs on full multimedia applications. Thats great.
The best feature is the keyboard which is very good and convenient to use. another good thing is it is(laptop) very easy to use. however 1 thing this laptop cant offer and that is sound. the sound is too low that you have to strain your ears to listen to that, , , , however u can always use earphones.
thumbs up to Lenovo for giving this good laptop.. Very satisfied by its performance, , , The warranty period is over by months and it looks as good as new. I am currently running Windows Vista Ultimate on this machine and it is giving g8 performance ( system rating of 3.1).