Today’s big announcement goes to Lenovo and their remastered ThinkCentre M58e and A58. Both of them Lenovo is presenting as reasonably priced enterprise and home solutions which will be best for the hard economic times. Their price tags are actually way more humble than their latest till now gadget. I’m speaking of course about Lenovo’s and Microsoft’s collaboration child - the Ultimate Academic PC that is 600 dollars higher at the entrance point. The specs are not mind-blowing, but if you check some boxes in the invoice, they will give out 1TB HDD, 4GB RAM and Blu-Ray burner. Sales start in early April.
As it seems, Lenovo were really thinking hard about how to come up with a second party PC which nevertheless would be tempting and appealing. And have succeeded but only for those who are not hot hardware hungry. What they did is adding lots and lots of different online services. Some of them are different for ThinkCentre M58e and A58 all-in-all however, considering marketing difference, user care is equal:- Lenovo ThinkCentre services:
- Rescue and Recovery tool
- Online Data Backup
- ThinkVantage Technologies - TVT - (M58e), Care Tools (A58)
- Client Security Solution
- Client Security Password Manager
- 24/7 technical support
All of these are included in the price, but in the official press release there is no word whether you can pick only needed services and may be cut some costs eliminating the unneeded ones.
Top range hardware for ThinkCentre lineup includes Intel Core 2 Quad, 1TB of memory, 4 GB RAM and Blu-Ray burner, but Intel Core 2 Duo and DVD burner are also available. Prices start at 399 USD and Lenovo will take your old PC to cover some of the price if you choose to.
