14 DAY TRIAL // Knowing that all professionals will want some sort of desktop to carry out their office work on, Lenovo set up the ThinkCentre series a fairly long time ago, a collection that just got updated in fact.
The new ThinkCentre M77 (which we talked about a while ago as well), as the desktop is called, is powered by the AMD FX-Series of central processing units.
Whatever AMD CPU is inside is backed by up to 16 GB of DDR3 RAM (random access memory) and paired with a hard disk drive of up to 1 TB.
Also, Lenovo made sure to add eight USB ports, since office work is bound to involve removable storage on a regular basis. A DVD player was thrown into the mix as well.
These are the more or less basic traits of the system, but Lenovo did not stop at that.
Since graphics designers may end up wanting to do things on either one or more screens, the company made it possible to add an optional AMD Radeon graphics card.
This board has all the visual rendering capabilities anyone needs, provided they don't intend to push it too hard. Eyefinity will handle the multi-display aspect, when needed.
Additionally, Lenovo made it possible for the newcomer to boot in under 30 seconds and used the SATA III (SATA 6.0 Gbps) interface for HDDs.
“Previously, this level of processing performance has only been available in premium PCs,” said Tom Shell, vice president and general manager, Commercial Desktop Business Unit, Lenovo.
“The ThinkCentre M77 desktop with the new AMD FX-series processors provide mainstream users a noticeable productivity difference, while simultaneously giving IT administrators the ability to manage the desktops remotely and easily service them.”
The Lenovo ThinkCentre M77 will start shipping by the end of the ongoing month (October, 2011) and has a starting price of $439 (310 Euro, give or take).