The Garret, you do realise that most laptops come in widescreen varieties now do you not? Infact, widescreen monitors have widely taken over sales. What you have here, as you put it, is a very powerful and cheap laptop. Making it a very nice entry level laptop. 

2gb of ram and 250gb hard drives are a bit over the 'dvd player with a full keyboard' level.
Vertical resolution is 800 pixels on the Y510, and 900 pixels on the Y710.

http://shop.lenovo.com/ISS_Static/merchandising/US/PDFs/Y510-techspecs_010808.pdf
http://shop.lenovo.com/ISS_Static/merchandising/US/PDFs/Y710-techspecs_010808.pdf

However, both models do sport a five-speaker sound system and an integrated (still photo) camera. 

So I take it that what we essentially have here, is a DVD player with a full keyboard?

- The Garret
The Garret, you do realise that most laptops come in widescreen varieties now do you not? Infact, widescreen monitors have widely taken over sales. What you have here, as you put it, is a very powerful and cheap laptop. Making it a very nice entry level laptop. 

2gb of ram and 250gb hard drives are a bit over the 'dvd player with a full keyboard' level.
Vertical resolution is 800 pixels on the Y510, and 900 pixels on the Y710.

http://shop.lenovo.com/ISS_Static/merchandising/US/PDFs/Y510-techspecs_010808.pdf
http://shop.lenovo.com/ISS_Static/merchandising/US/PDFs/Y710-techspecs_010808.pdf

However, both models do sport a five-speaker sound system and an integrated (still photo) camera. 

So I take it that what we essentially have here, is a DVD player with a full keyboard?

- The Garret