14 DAY TRIAL // Lenovo seems to always be working on a new ThinkCentre all-in-one desktop computer. Clearly, business customers continue their patronage even now, and will do so for a long time.
It's actually part of why the Chinese company managed to raise to the top of the PC industry in just a few years, matching even HP, surpassing it in places.
One-upmanship game aside, though, Lenovo has officially launched four new all-in-one desktop PCs featuring discrete graphics.
Sure, the discrete GPUs are optional, but that's still a step further than most other business AiOs go (they settle for whatever iGP the Intel CPU has).
Speaking of Intel CPUs, Lenovo chose Core-series Haswell chips for this batch.
One of the new systems is called ThinkCenter M73 and can be remotely powered up. It has a starting price of $439 / €328 and SSD storage. It is a small form factor desktop though, not an AiO. Sales will start in October 2013.
The ThinkCentre E73z and M73z are taken together. They measure 20 inches in diagonal and have high performance wireless and WiDi support. They are supposed to be “ideal for VoIP calls and video conferences” (have optimized 720p HD camera, array microphone with noise cancellation and high-quality stereo speakers).
The M73z even possesses a TPM Security Chip (data protection and self-encrypting).
Like for the ThinkCenter M73, the specs of these two all-in-one PCs vary according to customer preference. The cheapest configuration is of $599 / €447.
That leaves just the ThinkCenter E93z, whose own starting price is of $699 / €522. It is a 21.5-inch system with 10-point multitouch, a Core i7 CPU. The optional graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce 720 with 1 GB capacity.
All computers support WiDi (can easily link to notebooks or other displays) and the UltraFlex Stand, which lets the systems change height, rotate, tilt, and even fall fully flat (optimized for touch).