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    Quote Originally Posted by thefeedinghand View Post
    I'll be using it primarily for school with no high-end gaming in mind so I'm not looking for anything too fancy or expensive. I just want something reliable and decent.
    You can hardly go wrong with a Lenovo. You are looking at a ThinkPad and one of the T Series.
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    Lenovo have been annoying me more and more recently.

    I want to buy an 11 inch Thinkpad. The money is waiting. Lenovo came out with the X120e, which was just the job. Low power, Trackpoint, hardware virtualization, Radeon graphics (AMD Fusion)... the catch? Not available in the UK. They preferred to try to sell me the Edge 11, which is Intel Core i3-based and stylistically pants.

    Now they've just come out with the X121e, in Europe as well this time, with a choice of AMD or Intel processors. So what's the problem? It has rounded corners! It's all plasticky! It's an IdeaPad with a Trackpoint grafted onto it for over £300!!!

    Is there something that I need to do to stop the rot?

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