Lenovo utilizes a multicore AMD Athlon

processor
, Lenovo utilizes a multicore AMD Athlon Neo processor (or, on a very low-end machine, a single core AMD Turion Neo). I'm not familiar with these very new AMD wares, but Lenovo tells me they offer better price/performance than similar Intel chips and don't come with any of the fan noise and heat that accompanied older AMD mobile for Sony-VGP-BPS2A,Sony-VGP-BPS2The hardware is interesting. Instead of the standard netbook-class Atom