Lenovo ThinkCentre M57p 9088ARU Desktop

[motorhead45102]

the white shorter slots commonly found on older computers is not pci-express

they are just PCI aka Peripheral Component Interconnect/interface The LARGER large pin slots on very old pcs were ISA slots. PCI-E is either very short compaired to pci white slot or longer than the pci slots (pci-e x1 and pci-e x16)

[Learn2Code92]

$700?

Wow... Crazy...

I might pay around $350 at most.

[Demoras]

Hmm. I'd feel sad if I had to sell this thing. Poor Bauer :(

[DominatorMatrix]

@ all the space whiners its called a server

[NerdHelpDesk]

how can a intel GMA grafics be stae of the art?

[YukiLT]

Marketing

[elfslay]

Whoah whoah whoah- 80Gb? Holy crap, my computer from over 5 years ago had more space on its stock hard drive than that.

[imtomcom]

lol i built my gaming rig for 650 dollars

but i got an employee discount... lol

[WayneXtwilight]

erm $700 and its like THAT only? wow.. Lololol

[SonAvitch]

It would be a badass cheapy to get and mod out.

[JehxOne]

i say run a bunch of ion platforms or

a core2duo and 9400 or 9600 4Gb ram that and a 500GB HD

[legend101zelda]

Ew. Needs more ram unless your running a really bad business, and a 80gig hardrive will be eaten in a number of days if you have small business.

[Omellykim]

"The 80GB SATA II hard drive has great speed and plenty of space to store your important files"

lul i shit on 80gb

[pigflesh]

its for buisness. no program files needed... sooooo... it's good. My hard drive is 500gb , but then again it's a gaming pc.

[Markx12F]

only $700..........

[Roymond911]

really

[doomtomb3]

80GB hard drive, 1GB RAM, DVD-ROM (no burner) errrrrr wtf? Even for business I would recommend starting at 2GB of memory with Vista.

[chevelletrixter72]

Wow, that mouse has a scroll wheel???? OMG

[asaturyan]

The only good thing is the cpu on this machine.

Anyone who buys this would need a graphics and ram upgrade

[GoSuNiguy]

I'm pretty sure they would want a better computer if they want a gaming computer.

[kurozaki45]

do you think you need more than 1 GB for web browsing office and all that basic business stuff?

[asaturyan]

in xp no, in vista maybe

[kurozaki45]

in vista business i dont think so it doesnt have aero and all that crap

[onoff314]

vista YES, in idle most of the time vista uses more then 1gb.

[aeminence]

It's 2009. 1GB is nothing.

[rockapartie]

ah come on! the white slots are PCI, not PCIe!!!

[lhuser]

The only thing that kills the most for a business PC is the gig of RAM. Why not 2? With 2 GB, that'll be a perfect business system.

[nathaniel309]

2GB is the minimum if you're using vista.

When I had vista, 700-800mb RAM usage was just Idle.

[lhuser]

Exactly, but business would be ok with that. 1GB is...stupid. I don't mind the specs, since business won't use 80GB in storage (well, some departments), a C2D is enough, but 1GB is like...Lenovo's stupid side.

They make almost everything good, bu tthey got to leave a signature that they're stupid somewhere.

[kurozaki45]

it depends on the version of vista youre using if youre using home premium or ultimate of course its gonna use a lot of ram with all that crap it has loaded by default

[nathaniel309]

I used home premium x86. I had aero turned off, that saved some but I had SQL server express running though so that sort of evens things out a little.

[OzcarMtl]

yes...

[8nVidiaGTX8]

pfff what a piece of shit.... 1gig...Intergraded intel graphics just a piece of cheap junk seriously why do they even try and promote shit like this

[GmanProductionz1337]

Because not everyone wants 4GB of Ram 3 GTX280's and 4GHZ Overclocked quad cores and such. More people want a computer for basic funtions for web browsing, word processing and this is perfect for buisnesses so they can sell more

[8nVidiaGTX8]

wtf are you on about there is a barrier between decent specs and cheap shit. This will get the job done in the slowest possible way. For the money I could build a much better system. I wouldn't even trust the cheapo hardware in this thing the HDD would probably die within a year and there goes all your work if you have not backed up. And if you want to pay for a backup drive than you could better spend that money on getting something decent that wont fail.

[nathaniel309]

lenove isnt cheap shit, they're quality products, former manufacturer of IBM products.

The only shit thing is the hardware spec with 1GB ram and vista.

[8nVidiaGTX8]

I can tell you are a linux user lol no rant intended.

But Lenovo ''its spelled'' does offer some great products but this junk just does not make the company appealing if some users see tons of this junk that has been popping up on computer tv it does not give a good impression on the company

[nathaniel309]

First thing, I had a typo there, for god's sake you're not teaching me how to spell Lenovo.

I'm a Windows 7 user after 1 Year using Vista.

Users are given whichever hardware/sofware gets the job done. They are not given a quad core, gtx280 to play games and watch DVDs.

The only thing which could be improved for business use is to add another GB of RAM or downgrade to XP.

Lenovo is used vastly in the business environment. Beleive me, I work in this stuff, I know what i'm talking about.

[Saaduk92]

8nVidiaGTX8: Sure sure. Would you be willing to build hundreds of PC's? The amount of time you'd spend building away would really cut in to a business' time to actually get work done.

You have to look at it from a business perspective, too. Not just a computing aspect.

[8nVidiaGTX8]

I am looking at it from a computing aspect and it is very easy to biuld a computer. And annyways I was reffering to one computer for myself. If I had to buy hundreds of business computers I would buy something with reliable hardware good warranty and support such as a company as dell.

[Saaduk92]

That's the point, you shouldn't look at it solely from a computing aspect. Businesses are usually very organised and time is one of the key elements they have at their disposal, they won't trade time for better hardware. Whilst this system isn't an amazing one businesses still buy pre-built ones as they don't have the time to get someone to build them good machines.

[8nVidiaGTX8]

I think I know that and also when a business is going to store lots of data on it than it should at least have some reliable hardware that will induce the cost from failure rates and not to mention the cheap hdd that is some no brand crap which is likely going to have a very high failure rate. Even if they were to backup their data on every computer instead of using that money to buy back hdds they would be better of buying something reliable for inside those pc's.

[Saaduk92]

They don't usually back their data up on every computer. If it's a big company they'd use servers, as each employee would have important data on each computer. If it's a smaller business they're more likely to use something along the lines of external hard drives.

[8nVidiaGTX8]

And the servers are backed up regularly using the son father grandfather method

[Mibmu]

Looks like a IBM desktop computer from 90's to 2000...

[simracr94]

ya, it does

[slaterking1000]

LOL they spelt parallel wrong

[slaterking1000]

Lenovo or IMB make good looking business computers. I don't know why but they seem durable not cheep looking. Some companies put useless things on them to make them sell more. If you know what i mean.

[blamethedogs]

u guys rele need a new intro

the one that u have now is annoying.

[a7madramadan]

Not that annoying but actually new one is a need for now :) i guess this one never changed since CES09 i guess

[BloodyChakra]

very nice

[thesegamaster1234]

looks like a nice computer

[kensekine]

it wasn't made to be powerful. It was made to be cost-effective. It was made for people who need it only for work.

[superuglyman888]

why wont levnovo just die already

[Kg363]

i hate lenovo

[yalolol]

Because some companies actually buy off Lenovo in bulk.

[Xarieus]

grr so close to first

[lorecan]

1gb ram for vista??????

[ZeldascornStudios]

not really a gaming PC but good for office work or a student's PC...

[GamersCanGame]

@ZeldascornStudios if u slap a 9800gt it will game with 4gb

[iWizzard]

This is useless at home, lawl No games no space for movie/songs. Y but this unless you want a PC just to use google once a month.

[unz3l]

second comment@

[BenjaminEllett]

This would be good to build a office for a buisness but no point to it unless u just need a pc in your house to look at emails and wat not.