My father purchased me the Lenovo 3000 N500 Model 4233-54U Laptop a week ago today (2/&/09). Her is My review as of yet. The remaindethis r of this post is also on the Linux Lap Top Wiki Page for this moddel of Lenovo Laptop,

Ubuntu works for me as aswell, with video in Skype in addition to the Xfce desktop environment.

system Stupefactions

Lenovo 3000 N500 4233-54U

Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz

Memory: 2G or (2048MB)

SDA: 250GB

topgun17@B707:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz
stepping : 13
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 4322.42
clflush size : 64
power management:

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz
stepping : 13
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 4322.55
clflush size : 64
power management:

It doesn't look that bad to me.

I notice you mention Ubuntu in the body of your post, Mandriva in your profile, and OpenSolaris in your sig. Which did you install?

As well as the linux on laptops page, Ubuntu also has a laptop testing page with a big list of the things they'd like tested.

I installed Ubuntu, because i read a favourable review on the Linux Laptop wiki page.

I finally settled on Debian Lenny, but before i did the final installation i replaced the hared drive with a 500gb western digital Caviar Blue. So the fuuly correct system specifications are as follows.

system Stupefactions

Lenovo 3000 N500 4233-54U With after market 500gb hd

Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz

Memory: 3G or (3072MB)

SDA: 500GB