It's rare that a company spends any time talking about the visual design of a desktop intended to be sold en masse to big corporations before being unceremoniously stuffed onto or under desks. Odd, then, that
Lenovo is highlighting the aesthetics of two new
ThinkCentre PCs for enterprises, pointing out such things as silver rings around power buttons and crimson eject buttons. Right. Moving on to the hardware, there are two models here, the M70e pictured above and the rather more slim A70, shown after the break. Each come with your choice of Intel processors, up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, gigabit Ethernet, DVD burners, and storage capacities of 500GB on the A70 and 1TB on the M70e. That latter machine starts at $559, going up from there, while the A70 starts at a rather more affordable $379. That, it seems, is the machine for your new posse of go-getter interns, while you can save the M70e for the clock-watching middle-management types.
posted August 5th 2010 5:58AM
Thats 8% thinner?
@plenaghan88 Yeah, the last one was 8.6956522% wider than this one.
Thank god they pointed out the logo with an arrow, I wouldn't have found it on my own!
@Saad
I'm sure the guy below you with the BMW logo close-up benefited from that.
Clean one piece? They must of forgot all those other pieces....
What an extremly odd things to point odd.
I've been looking since the dawn of time for a tower system with a raised power button and a new silver ring! Thank you Lenovo!
@RincewindWiz
This post was by a Lenovo industrial designer, of course they will highlight these things. This one is more technical:
http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/
i've got a Lenovo on my desk at work (not my choice, obviously). looking at these promo materials and seeing what they think is important makes it so much more clear to me now why it's such a piece of garbage.
Well ! That is not all that of a surprise. Look at all the cheap Chinese manufacturer.
They all have literature that focus on stupid details like the color of the cable, the buttons, the bezels and so forth.
Lenovo is becoming more and more "Chinese" and unless their marketing team relies on occidental staff, we are bound to see more and more of this crap.
They will tell you all the itsy bitsy details that we don't care about and forget to mention the core of the product; wtf is inside !
Chinese have a tendency to "fill the voids". They cannot just put a picture and a brief description of the innards. Nope ! They have to describe that the little screws on the back of the box are Torx (tm). WOW ! What a benefit to know that these are Torx! The only shit, if any, is that I will have to break my head to find a damn screwdriver to open it !
the red eject button is wow, i mean simply wow!
sexy new silver ring.
this matters to us, why? i really haven't gained anything from this. I don't mean to be negative, but seriously, big whoop. I don't think Dell and HP are going to be lit up in the news for losing tons of business to Lenovo. Big corporations already have contracts and computers that work well...
Holy crap these are ugly! 1990 is calling: it wants it's case design back!
They have not updated that design in a decade. I have a pentium-4 based one from back when they were still IBM that was built in 2000 sitting right next to me. It literally looks identical minus the IBM NetVista logo on the side.
Lenovo is crap. The place I work for had to replace motherboards in %75 of the Lenovo's we have. Out of that %75, another %25 needed to changed a second or third time.
I have a seven year old IBM P4 desktop (runs crappy proprietary CAM apps) with the same fugly case. Mine doesn't have the silver ring, just a noisy-ass fan.
hey not all lenovos are bad looking.... i have a lenovo ideacentre k230
with core 2 quad and 6gb ram.... tv tuner.... nvidia geforce 8800 gtx.... double cd drive+ double hardrive with 600 and 1tb... and cooled by a huge bfg fan.... all for $600.... lenovos not that bad.....
I've not had a tower PC since getting an iMac in 2005 and have largely assumed people no longer bought them in favour of more box-shaped units or lap-tops. I could see myself thinking this Lenovo was quite ritzy back in 1998, when we had a Tiny that was about 8% wider and 8% taller.
Sweet. Can't wait for IT to give me this computer in 3 years. :|