Heat and noise are two of the biggest annoyances with laptops, and Lenovo’s laptops are not free from this problem. According to portablemonkey, the Lenovo forums have been flooded with complaints about the IdeaPad S10 netbook. According to the complaints, the fan incessantly spins up and down quite noisily. Lenovo has decided to pretty much ignore these complainers thus far, and some customers reported that they sent their laptop in to have this problem repaired and had it sent back to them in exactly the same condition.

That leads me to believe that it’s not a defect in the netbook, it’s simply a fact that the laptop will get hot and have to use the fan a lot even for less than challenging tasks. And that doesn’t surprise me – my own laptop is rather old with frighteningly netbook-like specs (1.7GHz CPU, 1GB DDR2 RAM) and I think twice about leaving it on while I sleep, even when it’s doing virtually nothing. The last non-surprise is that it bothers people and they complained about it, because it truly is annoying.

Maybe this is a greater issue though, and Lenovo will take care of it eventually. There’s no question that consumers would be happier with quieter laptops. Time will tell.