It is difficult for a computer shop when you call do not know how I did. Lenovo cost all-in-one is a part of the consumer desktop line, so that it would IdeaCentre the C300, but only $ 450 it is also part of the company's value line, which would give it the designation of Lenovo 3000 C300. Lenovo part number 3012-1AU? Forget it. We'll just stick with the C300, even if it switched to a Google search for the computer to Mercedes ... and although the use of the $ 450 model makes us wish Lenovo had the $ 549-configuration instead sent. We can not say, without hands on testing, but we could call this machine is something entirely different. Desktop of the year, maybe. The C300 is a nettop, such as the eMachines EZ1601 and Asus Eee Top ET1602 - the Intel Atom CPU, 802.11b / g WiFi, and other components of a Netbook in integrated desktop LCD monitor. The latter is not a touch screen like the Eee Top's, but it is bigger than both ASUS 'and shows eMachines' at 20 inches with 1600 x 900 resolution.
In fact, the screen is so large and sharp it's a shame the silicon behind is no better than the notoriously lame GMA 950 integrated graphics chipset of the Intel 945G Netbook - ideal for blackjack and Bejeweled, but not fast-moving games (although DVDs and 720p QuickTime video smoothly saw), or for minor touch-ups, but not detailed image editing, let alone video editing.
Two buttons right below the front panel brightness. Like the eMachines, we found ourselves want for a further notch or really light on a white background to fade, but it was a small gripe in the worst case.
Two USB 2.0 ports and an SD / MMC / MS Flash Memory Card slot is drive on the left side of the screen, with DVD ± RW on the right side. Four more USB ports, an Ethernet port and a lonely PS / 2 connector for the keyboard (the included mouse is a USB model) are on the back, as well as microphone and headphone jacks and a FireWire port.
There is also a user-accessible panel for the C300 Single DDR2 memory module, with the RAM upgrade option that's missing from the sealed envelope eMachines. (The default 1GB is that Microsoft will allow street vendors to sell Windows XP Home Edition, Lenovo offers 3 GB and 4 GB configurations with 32-bit Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium, respectively.)
The one piece pc measures 14.1 by 19.1 by 3.3 inches. Props an easel to display at an adjustable angle from 12 to 40 degree slope, during a recess in the lower bezel provides a pass-through cable or a carrying handle when moving the 14-pound system. While most of the C300, the glossy black, we will have grown used on dozens of PCs, is the base with a kind of Ye Olde paisley wallpaper pattern that a kicky touch has set up.