Lenovo IdeaCentre C300: Beautiful Classic Style Tweet

With a beautiful design and complete facilities, Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 is an ideal representation of a PC AiO. Not long ago, the vendor re-release of his newest family IdeaCentre labeled C300. Can be traced from its name if this product is set as a downgraded version of the A600. However, the design aspect remains a mainstay of Lenovo. This time they gave interface attraction with classical motive frame.

Class differences with the "brother" immediately apparent when we looked in the hardware specifications. To suppress the price, Lenovo uses Intel's Atom processor. But instead of using a type of N270 or N280 is actually intended for the netbook, C300 carrying a targeted N330 Intel for nettop. Naturally, if the performance was quite rushed C300 compared to other PC level AiO. Especially if you just used for standard computing activities.

Shown with 20-inch screen, C300 is well suited to satisfy the users of the multimedia side. The availability of an internal DVD drive into an advantage compared to C300 class competitors who generally only provide an external optical device.

But when tested, the ability to play HD video files, not as smooth as the way of hope. In some sections, the resulting picture somewhat broken. It does not matter if the play is a standard multimedia files such as AVI, WMV, and MP4.

Intrigued with its 3D performance, we played the game Doom 3 with the C300. The result? It turned out pretty good. Much more smoothly than when playing HD video.

Lenovo IdeaCentre C300 offers complete connectivity options. There are 6 USB ports, 1 port PS / 2 (for mouse), FireWire port, LAN, memory card reader 6-in-1, and also Wi-Fi facilities. With the range prince competitive prices in a number of U.S. $ 599, C300 worthy promoted as a leader among AiO various mid-level PCs.

Plus: beautiful design; use Atom N330; there is an internal DVD Writer; full connectivity
Minus: Lack of HD video plays okay; keyboard dirty easily; back less flexible

TEST SCORE
Performance: 3.8
Feature: 4
Ease: 4
Price: 4
TOTAL SCORE: 3.94

Test Results
SysMark 2004: 47
PCMark 2005: 2740
3DMark 2001: 2413
Encoding audio: 9 minutes 37 seconds
Encoding video: 32 minutes 42 seconds
Cinebench: 1561

Lenovo IdeaCentre SPECIFICATION C300
Processor: Intel Atom 330 1.6 GHz
Chipset: Intel Lakeport-G i945GC
Memory: 1 GB DDR2 GG7 MHz
Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon X4530
HDD: 160 GB, up to 640 GB
Optical drive: DVD writer
Sound card: Realtek ALC662
OS: Windows XP SP2
Facilities: 6 USB ports, 1 FireWire port, LAN, 802.11b / g WiFi, memory card reader, audio ports, 1.3 MP webcam + mic, speaker, PS / 2 keyboard, USB mouse
Monitor: 20 "(16:9 ratio)
Dimensions: 49x36x55 cm
Weight: 6.4 kg
Warranty: 1 year
Price range: U.S. $ 599

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