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Lenovo ThinkCentre a61e

Lenovo ThinkCentre a61e
With Keyboard & Mouse Right Angle Keyboard & Mouse

REVIEW

Really compact, green, and all business, the Lenovo ThinkCentre a61e ($659 direct) is a sub-$700 business PC for those business owners who want to spend wisely. In addition to the system's reasonable price, the a61e is compact (helping your office space needs), quiet (helping your workers' sanity), extremely easy to service (helping your IT department's sanity), and very energy efficient. If you just need a basic business PC with a few fringe benefits, then take a long look at the ThinkCentre a61e. It's for the worker who doesn't need portability, high-end graphics, or massive developmental number crunching. It's a basic PC that will keep your information-based or information processing workforce humming along.

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Lenovo

http://www.lenovo.com

Spec Data
  • Price as Tested: $659.00 Direct
  • Type: Business
  • Processor Family: AMD Athlon X2
  • RAM: 2 GB
  • Storage Capacity: 180 GB
  • RAID: No
  • Graphics Card: ATI Radeon X1200
  • Primary Optical Drive: Dual-Layer DVD+/-RW

Bottom Line

This compact desktop PC from Lenovo shows that you can have energy efficiency as well as an easy-to-live-with business PC, making it a good choice for your mainline workers.

Pros

Energy-efficient (EPEAT Gold and Energy Star 4.0). Compact. Dual-core processor. Quiet. Inexpensive for a business PC. Lenovo ThinkVantage utilities, including Rescue and Recovery. 3-year warranty. Easy-open case design. Desktop-class hard drive and optical drive. Light weight.

Cons

A smidge less performance than other business systems. No internal expansion for PCI/PCIe cards. External power brick. Notebook-class RAM. Only VGA-out. Norton Internet Security subscription for only 90 days.

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