Lenovo’s attempts at all-in-one PCs have so far been confined to their consumer-centric lines, but with the ThinkCentre A70z they’re pushing for your office (or at least your home-office). A sober black monolith with a surprisingly affordable price tag, Lenovo have paired the A70z with ambitious boot-time promises; is that enough to score a place on your desk? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.
System Overview and Features
Hidden behind the 19-inch 1,440 x 900 display is a 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 processor together with 2GB of memory and a 320GB hard-drive. Graphics are courtesy of Intel’s GMA 4500 chipset, and there’s a side-mounted DVD burner, integrated stereo speakers, webcam and a total of six USB 2.0 ports. Network connectivity includes WiFi b/g/n and gigabit ethernet, though Lenovo don’t offer either FireWire or eSATA for high-speed data connections.
Performance
Still, given the GMA 4500 graphics, Lenovo aren’t expecting the A70z to replace your console. We ran Geekbench on the ThinkCentre, a synthetic test of processor and memory performance, and the system scored 3191 overall, its CPU stores held back by the RAM performance. Still, in its raw state Lenovo claim you can have the A70z go from cold to Windows 7 being ready for use in a little over 30 seconds, and we found that to be true.