page_title: Lenovo
section_title: IdeaPad
hierarchical_section_title: Lenovo / Products and services / Personal and business computing / IdeaPad
caption_attribution_description: English: Lenovo IdeaPad 300 14 running Windows 10 Pro x64 with Intel Celeron N3060 1.60GHz, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD
context_page_description: Lenovo Group Limited, often shortened to Lenovo, is a Hong Kong based Chinese multinational technology company. It is headquartered in Quarry Bay, with additional operational headquarters in Morrisville, North Carolina and Beijing. The company designs, develops, manufactures, and sells personal computers, tablet computers, smartphones, workstations, servers, electronic storage devices, IT management software, and smart televisions, and is the world's largest personal computer vendor by unit sales as of March 2019. It also markets the ThinkPad and ThinkBook business lines of notebook computers; IdeaPad, Yoga, and Legion consumer lines of notebook laptops; and the IdeaCentre and ThinkCentre lines of desktops.
  Lenovo has operations in over 60 countries and sells its products in around 160 countries. It has research centers in Beijing, Chengdu, Yamato, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Morrisville, and also has Lenovo NEC Holdings, a joint venture with NEC that produces personal computers for the Japanese market.
  Lenovo was founded in Beijing in November 1984 as Legend, and was incorporated in Hong Kong in 1988.
context_section_description: The IdeaPad line of consumer-oriented laptop computers was introduced in January 2008. The IdeaPad is the result of Lenovo's own research and development; Unlike the ThinkPad line, its design and branding were not inherited from IBM. The IdeaPad's design language differs markedly from the ThinkPad and has a more consumer-focused look and feel.
  On September 21, 2016, Lenovo confirmed that their Yoga series is not meant to be compatible with Linux operating systems, that they know it is impossible to install Linux on some models, and that it is not supported. This came in the wake of media coverage of problems that users were having while trying to install Ubuntu on several Yoga models, including the 900 ISK2, 900 ISK For Business, 900S, and 710, which were traced back to Lenovo disabling and removing support for the AHCI storage mode for the device's Solid State Drive in the computer's BIOS, in favor of a RAID mode that is only supported by Windows 10 drivers that come with the system. Lenovo has since released an alternative firmware that has restored the AHCI mode to the drive controller to allow installation of Linux operating systems.
caption: An IdeaPad 300
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