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Lenovo goes for entry level notebook jugular
CHINESE NOTEBOOK firm Lenovo said it is taking aim at people who buy PCs from shops with the introduction of Ideapad notebooks and Thinkcentre desktops.
Lenovo describes these machines as being aimed at the global consumer market, but using the word “consumer” is an offence which attracts the birch here at the INQ. It makes us folk sound like things with giant maws into which the vendors pour their products to be digested.
Three Ideapads, which use Intel Centrino chips and called the Y510, Y710 and the U110 will be sold in the US. They include facial recognition, Dolby home theatre surround sound, and frameless monitors.
The Ideapad 17-inch Y710 ($1,1200) comes with ATI graphics, and has a blue metallic finish.
The Y510 ($800) is a 15.4-inch widescreen machine, while the Ideapad U110 is an 11-inch widescreen “ultra portable” but won’t be available until April. µ
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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.