Lenovo's Atom-powered C100 is Cheap, Cheerful
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We're fairly used to seeing cheap as chips Atom-based netbooks week in, week out so this offering from Lenovo is a nice change of scenery.
Following its launch of the ThinkPad X200 and T400s, the company has something a little more modest to offer those with little need for a full blown desktop. The company today announced the C100, an Atom-based all in one that boasts an 18.5-inch, 16:9 display with Intel's Atom 230 single core or the 330 dual core as well as a DVD burner/reader, 4 USB ports, GMA950 integrated graphics, 1 GB of RAM, a 160 GB (5400 RPM) hard drive. Top it all off with Windows XP and the starting price of $399 is almost too good to be true. Any takers? Let us know in the comments below!
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People in the market for slim all-in-ones usually aren't the kind that build powerful systems for themselves.
People in the market for slim all-in-ones usually aren't the kind that build powerful systems for themselves.
You can build something twice as powerful, but would that be in the same budget range? Including a similar size monitor (that's doesn't have to be a touchscreen) which is probably already 30-40% of the budget? So leaving less than $300 to build the rest. Every little thing counts, including keyboard and mouse!
The 330 is a little faster than an Athlon X2 3800+ with a 230 being a about on par with an Athlon 64 3800+, your XP couldn't keep up.
the atom 1.6 GHz is closer to a P3 tualatin 1.4 GHz actually
http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-4801-view-Intel-atom-1.6-Ghz-benchmark.html
It's definitely slower than an Athlon 3000+
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Atom-Athlon-Efficient,1997.html
In fact it's slower than an Athlon 2000+
For us a ultraportable laptop is barely enough for the kind of responsiveness and performance we NEED in a machine of our own, but then again, we are a minority and let´s face it, Intel is only giving people what they want, let's just hope it doesn't become another Nintendo and almost forget us.
I'll pretend you are honestly asking this... so I went to newegg. Not only can I make something useable (with a DVD drive too) it also comes in $50 cheaper giving you options.
eg of the day: $348.92
-LG DVD Burner Black SATA Model GH22NS50 - OEM
-Broadway Com Corp 937PK-BLACK Steel Computer Case Okia ATX 420W Power Supply - Retail
-Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"
-Hanns·G boston Simulated Woodgrain 19" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor w/ swivel a adjustment Built in Speakers -
-MSI K9N6PGM2-V2 AM3/AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
-Rosewill RK-101 Black PS/2 Standard Enhanced Keyboard - Retail
-Rosewill RM-C2P Black 3 Buttons 1 x Wheel PS/2 Optical Mouse - Retail
-AllComponents 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel kit Desktop Memory Model
-AMD Athlon II X2 240 Regor 2.8GHz Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Processor Model ADX240OCGQBOX - Retail
This low end machines suck... they are meant to give the manfacturer high margins for the production cost, and to ensure these machines will be unuseable with the software coming out in the next few years, thus requiring another machine.
Every one of these crap machines sold ensures that your next computer will not be as powerful as it could be. Anyone defending this crap while using a real machine to do work themselves is an idiot.
Not an idiot in my opinion just a hypocrite, the "do as I say, not as I do", crowd.
Also, to be honest, for what I do at work, the dual core version of this would be more than enough if my company would ditchsome of the crapware they install on our computers. Basic productivity, web serving, and low level database management can easily be handled on an atom.