Re: Lenovo ThinkCenter M90z All-In-One Review

animatortom — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:33:33 GMT

OK, I'll be the one to say it!.......Man, they REALLY missed the mark on this one!

That is an awful lot of money for yesterdays gimmick! Any small business that would use something like this could still go to Sam's and pick one up for under a K, if not less. Any larger business will end up choosing a more durable and professional input device for their employees, Like Wacoms or other touch screen peripherals?

That being said where they missed the mark if they are going to charge that price is to aim it towards a desk-like atmosphere for the home! If they took a cue from Wacom, then they could have set it on an incline desk mount to allow people to use it naturally, similar to a drafting desk. At least then the touch capabilities would feel more natural. If they also upped the ante and gave it a good pen input, then it would have appealed to many more people! At 2K and 21", a 23" unit would have picked up many people who would like a Wacom and even the ones who wouldn't think they could use one! Then if they put in one of the new ATI Fire-Mobile GPU's then it would have greater appeal across the board, from Graphic designers, Photographers to students.

As far as the HD noise, I would have to ask Neil how the aerospace industry dealt with spinning discs in a gravitational field that wasn't entirely horizontal or vertical, That had random pressures applied at various points along its plane? I don't know why at that price they wouldn't just go with an SSD, maybe a 128GB one that could satiate people for the system, and allow them to use externals for mass storage?

It seems like they say they design this for business, yet they only get it set up for a housewife who wants something like this for the kitchen counter? For some reason it seems like they are always slightly off the mark. When they could put just a little more into it and not only save tons of customers from the Turtleneck bandit. But they could also make new ones who would have turned to Wacom or been left wanting because of the cost to complete a all-in one work rig.

This would have been totally cool to have sitting at a 45% angle right in front of you, with the keyboard below on the tray, The to be able to use it like the Wacom when you go to those programs that require it!

Hopefully after reading this, we will see a system like that come out next year as soon as the sales go nowhere, ..If they are listening?

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Re: Lenovo ThinkCenter M90z All-In-One Review