Lenovo's Atom-powered C100 is Cheap, Cheerful

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[citation][nom]LORD_ORION[/nom]Please stop buying this crap. You can build something twice as powerful on your own.[/citation]
People in the market for slim all-in-ones usually aren't the kind that build powerful systems for themselves.
 
It's fine if you don't mind a painfully slow computer, but for anyone wanting something faster than my first computer I built in 2001(bleeding edge Athon XP), it's going to be a bit disappointing.
 
@LORD_ORION:

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!
 
[citation][nom]Athlon_XP_FTW[/nom]It's fine if you don't mind a painfully slow computer, but for anyone wanting something faster than my first computer I built in 2001(bleeding edge Athon XP), it's going to be a bit disappointing.[/citation]

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.
 
Don't forget folks that pretty much every IT manager of any corporation or organization of any size has the agenda of having every user except themselves have thin clients, since we all (not them) do exactly the same job, essentially nothing needing any computing power beyond a keyboard, monitor and mouse. They're the only ones needing computing power and all the money associated with building server farms, computing clusters and dictating everything the rest of us are allowed to do. Pretty soon we'll have to phone the helpdesk to go take a poop.
 
Even the single core atom that I've used was a lot slower than the 3300+ computer that we unfortunately still have in this house. That's the single core, so the dual must be faster than that.
 
I honestly thing that Atom is working (and going to keep working) because we power users are a minority, and for 90% of the people an Atom is enough, perhaps barely enough, but still it can do what the normal user needs, for hardware enthusiast is Almost a blasphemy to buy a processor this weak that (to make everything worst) comes coupled with an old old, not optimized, chipset.
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.
 
pepperman: +1, I don't know where in the name of fanboyism he got that idea that a dual-core atom is anywhere near an Athlon X2 3800+, if anything, it would be lucky to beat my aging Pentium M 1.6ghz laptop, but I'm not convinced that it would.
 
[citation][nom]jellob[/nom]@LORD_ORION: 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![/citation]

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.
 
LORD_ORION: 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.
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Not an idiot in my opinion just a hypocrite, the "do as I say, not as I do", crowd.
 
Don't buy lenovo garbage, boycott Chinese products! don't support the chinese gov.
 
The clear choice with that 50 dollars is to buy a new graphics card. The 19" screen has a relatively low resolution and a $50 card can handle less intense games such as Command & Conquer 3 at full detail. More graphically stressing games could be played with reduced settings or resolution.
 
Hey Orion, I hate to ruin your argument, but you still need an OS. The all-in-one comes with XP, do you know anywhere to get XP (leagally)for $50.

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.
 
What Mr. Right here doesn't seem to get is that for 90% of users this is an excellent computer, and stated earlier, repeatedly. Just because you feel it's too slow, doesn't mean that $400 for an entire system that perform most average tasks is a bad deal.
 
@LORD_ORION
We can't all be 15 year old fat kids who don't care how things look and have our parents to pay the electric bill...
 
I'm wondering, with a screen that large, and that proportion, why they didn't go with the nVidia Ion graphics. Yeah, a little more money, but it can handle 1080p graphics, so it should have no problem with that screen. It wouldn't necessarily be a "Mac killer", but it should have a fighting chance. (It LOOKS nice at least.)
 
[citation][nom]NoCaDrummer[/nom]I'm wondering, with a screen that large, and that proportion, why they didn't go with the nVidia Ion graphics. Yeah, a little more money, but it can handle 1080p graphics, so it should have no problem with that screen. It wouldn't necessarily be a "Mac killer", but it should have a fighting chance. (It LOOKS nice at least.)[/citation]

I'm wondering the same myself. Who knows though, right? Maybe they will release another version featuring the ion. Now THAT would be nice :)
 
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