Lenovo's IdeaCentre A600 now available to order, should ship soon
By Darren Murph 
posted Mar 25th 2009 6:57PM
posted Mar 25th 2009 6:57PM
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I'd actually consider buying this if it had an option for a video card other than the intel one, and it came in a "24 inch option.
I got an email from Lenovo announcing this machine today, and I too am disappointed by the lack of the optional ATI graphics that were promised at CES. Also, the lack of BluRay makes the 1080p capable display pointless. Of course, so does the size. I'm really a bit bummed about the omission of these two options, because the IndeaCentre A600 was the AIO I was looking to buy.
It still lists them on the product features page, so I'm discreet gfx (or at least non-Intel) and the Blu Ray drive are in the works.
The "XPS One" looks just as nice, and has the features you described. I set up one for a client a month ago very nice machine.
SWEET! I'm gonna be buying this! I did want the Asus Eee Top, but this looks 10x better.
Oh and I'm not gonna say "first" because that is for sorry losers.
Gota love that x4500 graphics...
Cant see any reason to own this when sony has some beautiful units with 9500GT's
hum these are cheaper ... way cheaper than sony actually ... plus sony chose to include a weird keyboard that I don't really like. However, HP makes better AIO PC than both companies ... and if I were looking for a windows computer I'd consider the HP line before I look at either Sony or Lenovo. But that's just me.
What's with that butt?
That's what she said.
But then again, those are pretty sexy prices..
Anyone know anything with dedicated graphics at this price point (all-in-one)
I wanted an Imac before the updates but I can´t persuade myself to pay the new higher price for just "decent" hardware. This seems like a good afordable alternative. And dont give me crap about mac os x. The only things that I´m gonna do on the pc is surf, watch movies, utorrent and squeezebox server; windows has served me well for those purposes.
Check out the HP all in one as well. They are a little more expensive, but it is a touch all in one. They are very sweet!
i agree with adam. I'm not ussually much of an HP fan, but the Touchsmart Pc's are pretty cool.
But if you do get one of these, get the base model. A 2 gig stick of RAM and larger hard drive is not worth an extra 300, and if these are at all worthwhile, you'll be able to do the upgrade urself.
I'm baffled at why they're choosing to use ultra low-end Core 2's with 800MHz FSB, and then touting their use of "speedy DDR3" capable of 1066. Strange, to say the least.
they tend to have done that with their ideapad too, underpowered, (I'm using it now), my 6 year old vaio T1 ran just as well!
conversative??? I'm guessing that is either a typo, or a feature that needs to be explained further.
Conversative \Con*ver"sa*tive\ (k[o^]n*v[~e]r"s[.a]*t[i^]v), a.
Relating to intercourse with men; social; -- opposed to
contemplative.
[1913 Webster]
She chose . . . to endue him with the conversative
qualities of youth. --Sir H.
Wotton.
[1913 Webster]
Intercourse with men? o_O
look how dumb you are
Nice, 1920 resolution in a 21inch screen size!
No Bluray option? WTF?
They should allow us to upgrade the processor, the graphics card, and the optical drive.
That is a beautiful set, though. It reminds me of the Bang & Olufsen TVs. http://www.bang-olufsen.com/page.asp?id=430
Yeah - i'd love to see a bluray, core 2 quad, 4 gigs of ram, 1TB, and dedi graphics option - It'd be worth it even for around 1500. (not that id buy one)
no blu-ray yet i guess...will be in future models...but no hdmi in? or did i miss that...they should have kept the tv componenets seperate from the computer componennts and just used a digital interconnect.. duh..doesen't take a rocket scientist
According to Lenovo's web site, some models do have a Blu-Ray option, but you hit it in the head: no HDMI option? That means OTA HD recording only which is a waste in these times. Huge oversight.
and no wireless network? wtf?
looks like ati graphics will also be in future models...which is a plus...may be able to play something like battlefield heroes..
All software aside I prefer the look of the iMac 24" a little more.
so does Lenovo still have that thing with IBM or what? I know my school's laptops and desktops are all Lenovo (IBM) computers running XP but they're a few years old and I haven't really gotten a chance to see whether the teacher's new Lenovo laptops still said IBM on them (yeah and they still run XP too for some reason??).
As far as I know, they've taken off all of the IBM labels. I believe one of the last to get the labels was the early production of the X61 ThinkPad, but I may be mistaken. IBM still handles their support (I'm not sure if that includes the "Idea" brands), and that alone makes it worth going with Lenovo.
I get that it is an "Idea" line rather than a "Think" line, and that Lenovo is trying to keep the two as separated as possible, but why in the world would they build a trackpad onto the keyboard rather than a trackpoint?
Is it me or does Lenovo not let you customize anything on their computers? I was looking to get a Lenovo for my next desktop PC because of the affordability and their nice form factor, but literally, the only things you could customize were like .. 2 year in home service and a free messenger bag with the lenovo stamp on it.
The difference between the $700 and $800 model is 1gb of ram and 180gb of hd space... but I'd like to see whether it's feasible to stuff my own ram in there and add a new HDD... I doubt it... but still.
Anyone notice this PC that's supposed to be "seriously breaking some molds" looks amazingly like an iMac painted black, with the bottom non-screen part twisted back at an angle and attached to the stand? If the bottom part was straightened, it would have a form almost identical to the iMac. Serious ground-breaking indeed!
Lenovo's IdeaCentre A600 powerful, Stylist, it can be popular Laptops this year.
I agree about the mismatched bus speeds of the cpu and ram, what's up with that? Also, I would want an option for better video and the final deal breaker here is paying for Vista when I would just want to wipe it and install XP.
Try saying "should ship soon, should ship soon, should ship soon" three times really fast!
who buys a computer from a poor spec sheet like what you get by clicking the 'image' above?
Does anyone know if the base model comes with the remote? Also does it come with the cool wireless keyboard and mouse that it shows?
Love the computer