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It's a lot easier than you think. I've done twice and it was a lot easier than I thought it would be. There's two methods - starting from scratch, or buying a barebones system and going from there. I did both with a barebones system, but if you're going from scratch, I'd look at ASUS, CLEVO or SAGR for the parts. Sites like rjtech.com have pretty much all you would need.

Guides for barebones approach:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-your-own-laptop/?ALLST...

http://www.corsair.com/en-us/blog/2014/april/how_to_build_a_...

http://www.directron.com/laptopdiy.html

Ebay listing for Laptop Housing if you're going to start from scratch:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Laptop-Housings-and-TouchPads-For-AS...

Barebones laptop kits:

http://www.rkcomputer.net/rkcnotebooks/index.php?l=product_l...

Yeah, it's not easy, but if you want to do it, it's totally possible.

Reinstalling windows on them sure is.
That's not enough if your Lenovo laptop uses LSE.

Here's their tool to remove it. http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds104370

By reinstall I mean fdisk, dd if=/dev/zero