14 DAY TRIAL // Lenovo is really experimenting with its PC line, making both questionable and understandable design and release decisions, and the ThinkCentre M92z is no exception.
The ThinkCentre M92z would be an average, run off the mill all-in-one computer if Lenovo didn't decide to make it look like a monitor.
Granted, all AiOs look like monitors, to some extent, but their thickness and stand, or lack thereof, usually makes it easy to tell them apart from regular displays.
Not so for the ThinkCentre M92z, which looks every bit like a monitor, while still incorporating every PC component necessary to grant it AiO status.
As some will have surmised, it will have an Ivy Bridge central processing unit at its core, this being one of the reasons the form factor is possible.
Since the CPU integrates most of the functions a PC is supposed to possess, making things compact is easier than ever.
What's more, there will be 20-inch and 23-inch versions of this system, both featuring Windows 8-ready touchscreens.
We'll let people decide whether touch support is convenient or awkward to use on displays of this type.
The source of this report is the same as the one behind the new tidbits of information regarding the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge laptops.
Apparently, there will be versions powered by AMD's Trinity accelerated processing units (APUs) eventually, not just Ivy Bridge configurations, although it will take a while for them to show up.
Sure, the “Battery Safeguard” may prove a bit annoying to manufacturers and buyers who would like to put a stronger one inside, but that's the way things are.
At least the laptops will start shipping sooner than the ThinkCentre M92z all-in-one desktop PC. Though the Edge laptops will be launched in May, the AiO isn't expected to ship before July this year (2012). In the meantime, the spec details may or may not change.