Re: Comments on Lenovo desktops
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:09:46PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Has anyone any comments on either or both of these two for a simple desktop?
> Email, word processing, browsing, simple photo-editing, recording etc.
>
> http://www.ebuyer.com/658955-lenovo-thinkcentre-e50-00-twr-desktop-90bx001huk
>
This is, essentially, a laptop less a screen - it's very similar indeed to the
cheapest Lenovo laptop at under £200 from Ebuyer - but it has more USB 3 ports.
Given that Windows 8.1 and Bing together cost almost nothing to an OEM and are
hugely subisdised by Microoft, it's essentially a desktop less real OS :)
Having used the cheapest Lenovo laptop with 4G of memory and 500G spinning rust disk
- it has the same processor - it is a bit slow to start but will run Debian fine.
The desktop has a laptop power supply so may run a little quieter than a PSU with
a fan.
> http://www.ebuyer.com/658956-lenovo-e50-desktop-pc-90bx0018uk
>
> I normally like the name "Lenovo", but am suspicious of these. They seem
> under powered (very!), and I would have preferred no OS. But I can't really
> produce a reason for my suspicion. Perhaps they are too good to be true?
> The second is quite extraordinarily cheap for a desktop in this country. (UK)
>
Not a great fan of Lenovo if you do keep Windows on the disk - they do supply
rather a lot of rubbish, extra utilities, AV products and the like.
> The other in the running is this:
> http://www.ebuyer.com/570073-zoostorm-desktop-pc-7873-1200
> It has no OS, a plus, and I have had good reports of it.
Wife's laptop is a Zoostorm bought with no OS - relatively cheap and cheerful -
to be honest, given the choice, I'd prefer an Asus for slightly more solid build
quality. Each to their own.
>
> This is not for me, but for a client. It will run Wheezy and TDE.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Lisi
>
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