Customer Reviews

Lenovo IdeaPad 59-014845 U110 Series 11.1" Laptop (Intel Core 2 Duo L7500 Processor, 3 GB RAM, 120 GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium) Black

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I have owned a Asus EEE for several months and I love its size and simplicity, but eventually the performance limitations (i.e. disk size, processor speed) wore me down and left me wanting. After researching several small-screen laptops (Flybook, Lifebook, Asus N010, & HP2310), I finally decided on the Lenovo U110. I will add some photos to this review shortly.

Pros:

Absolutely gorgeous style and look

Intel Duo Core power

Ability to run Vista even if I choose to run XP

Small Footprint only 10% larger than the ASUS EEE

Solid, durable construction

Portable Optical Device (CD/DVD) included

Netbook size without compromise

Two batteries (1 large, 1 small) is great conveinience

Cons:

Defintiely Pricey, but you get what you pay for, I guess.

Glossy keyboard produces oily fingerprints (ala iPhone)

No SSD option 4200 rpm drive could be improved upon

Wished all of the keys were backlit and not just the media strip

I have had the Lenovo U110 IdeaPad for about a month now. The notebook functions very well and I am using it for browsing, MS office, and Quickbooks.

What I like:

- The slim design and light weight

- The large keys

- The bright crisp display

- Reasonable performance

- Overall look and feel

- Red color is nice and the Klingon looking A/V keys are kind of cool

What I don't like

- No TrackPoint (like the ThinkPad models)

- No keyboard light (like the Thinkpad models)

- No option for MS Windows Professional or Windows XP

- No option for high speed disk drive

- Detached but very large DVD writer

- Shiny key caps always have fingerprints

- Very flimsy LCD display housing - it flexes and separates when you grab it.

Should have got the small ThinkPad instead. Not as cool looking but better functionality

Pros

Cool sexy sleek design

Light weight

Nice battery life with extended battery

Acceptable overall performance

Plays some good games as well

Strong wifi signal

Screen may be glossy when off, but when on you hardly see a reflection

Although might look like hard to use, I have no problems using keyboard

touch pad is awesome

solid build

Portable Optical Device included

Cons

fingerprint magnet

Slow startup with veriface

Sometimes lags with multi-tasing jobs

I bought this laptop just over a year ago. Its been great other then I noticed the hard drive occasional skipping. Noticeable during video playback and slightly moving the laptop. The hard drive finally died just after one year. (Just past the warranty period). Lenovo wanted $305 for a replacement 120gb 1.8in hard drive plus $49 processing and a mandatory $10 for the recovery disk (that I don't need) $365 for a 120gig hard drive. After hours on the phone with them and several diff customer service areas - They had no alternatives. Im just going to junk the thing and buy a diff laptop...... Im never buying Lenovo ever again... bad company experience

After 15 years of heavy, ugly laptops, this is a dream. After installing XP, feels fast.

Cambié la versión black por la red, es un rojo metálico padrísimo.

Está idea-l para quienes gustan de llevar su compu a todos lados. Es super ligera como cargar una libreta, cuenta con la capacidad y funcionalidad de un equipo para business, compacta pero permite visualizar perfectamente el trabajo en pantalla, la opción de dos baterías ayuda a continuar sin corriente por más tiempo, el teclado es perfecto en tamaño y comodidad, ... idea-l.

El único detalle es que se quedan las huellas marcadas en el teclado.