Lenovo's IdeaCenter A600 iMac Killer has Blu and TV Tuner
Lenovo's A600 is a 21.5-inch monolith of an all-in-one, with 4GB of RAM, a terabyte of hard drive space, a 512MB ATI video card, Blu-Ray and a TV tuner. Most interesting of all is what's not there: bulk. An inch thick through most of its height, it's claimed to be the thinnest-in-class.
It'll be out later this quarter, with loadouts starting at a penny short of a grand.Here's detailed specs:
21.5-inch frameless screen, full HD resolution 1920 X 1080 resolution
Intel Pentium Dual Core & Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processors
Intel G45M Chipset
DDR3 1066MHz, 1GB-4GB and up to 1 TB (1,000 GB) of HD space
Integrated graphics with support for DirectX10 , Optional DX10 256M OR 512M OR ATI graphics
Connectivity – Intel a/b/g Optional a/b/g/n, Ethernet
VeriFace 3.5 facial recognition
Dolby Home Theatre
Optional Blu-Ray DVD player
Optional hybrid analogue/digital TV tuner
Touch sensitive controls
Optional 4-in-1 remote control
6-in-1 card reader
6 USB 2.0 ports and 1 firewire (1394)
1.3 or 2 megapixel camera
Vista Premium, Vista Basic
WinDVD （for Blue-ray ODD), Motion drive games, Veri-face 3.5, PC Care 1.1, Rescue System 2.0
(OKR5.7), Live tool bar, Power2Go, Windows Home Premium SP1 32 , Home Basic SP 1
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I'd say beautiful. I think the junk down on the trunk is appealing.
The curved bit is neat, but sort of ruins it for wall, panel, or arm mounting.
The main unit looks nice, but the keyboard design is all sorts of lame. No style at all.
It's a wonderfully design for the purpose of completely destroying any benefit of thinness.
Yeah, Chris nailed it. Isn't it obvious it should curve in the opposite direction?
Alas, it's all ruined by the same thing that ruins all other beautiful PCs: It will never be an iMac killer as long as it's running Windows.
Once again I will cough the hoary refrain that the only realistic way to compete with any Apple desktop product is to hire a team of usability experts and designers to put together a new Linux desktop that is extraordinarily usable and beautiful.
It's pretty easy to run MacOS on most PCs!
I've been looking for an all-in-one. Whatever I get, I will immediately wipe the OS and install Ubuntu. This IBM machine has just made my choice more difficult, as I've narrowed my selection to:
Dell XPS One - simple, cheap, probably reliable.
HP Touchsmart (yes, I'd forego the touch capability on Ubuntu)
Imac - (I'd keep a small MacOS partition for firmware updates)
IBM A600 - looks awesome, more configurable than others.
iMac + HD HomeRun terrestrial / cable tuner (or Cinergy S Mac for satellite) + EyeTV + Remote Buddy = Fried Gold.
"Fried Gold", nice, I like that phrase alot.
Otherwise this looks like a dressed up product shot of something that will just be a dust magnet IRL. As others have said, no OSX, no interest. Actually, just no interest, I woudnt take this thing for free, it would just cost me precious flatspace.
I like the small form factor, but it certainly limits its lifespan if you're one of those people (like me) that are ALWAYS upgrading their current computer.
"Beautiful. Beautiful?"
No, not beautiful. Absolutely ghastly in every way.
I don't know if there is just some trend to jump on anything that is remotely all-in-one and slim and call it an "iMac killer" (simply because the Wintel world has nothing to match an iMac on any level besides filling a shiny black box with a massive spec) but this thing is a disastrous piece of product design!
Disgusting, on every level.
Remember when this was supposed to have those specs?
Remember how on Lenovo's website the device just pennies short of 1 grand only has 3Gb RAM, 640Gb HDD, NO Blu-Ray, NO high end graphics?
It is an expensive paper weight.