Lenovo IdeaCentre C300 comes with a beautiful design and complete facilities. Not long ago, Lenovo has just released Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 as an ideal representation of an AiO PC . Now, the vendor re-release of its newest IdeaCentre family, the C300. As we can trace from its name, this C300 is set as a downgraded version of the A600. However, the design aspect remains a mainstay of Lenovo. This time they give an appearance attraction of the PC with classical motifs frame.
Immediately, we can see that the positioning of Lenovo IdeaCentre C300 is as a “cheap” version of the Lenovo A600, when we looked in the hardware specifications. To suppress the price, Lenovo uses Intel's Atom processor. But instead of using N270 or N280 that are actually intended for the netbook, C300 carrying a nettop targeted processor, the Intel N330. That’s the reason why C300 has better performance compared to other AiO PC in this level. Especially if you just use it for standard computing activities.
Equipped with 20-inch screen, C300 is well suited to satisfy the users from the multimedia side. The availability of an internal DVD drive is an advantage, compared to other competitors, which generally only provide external optical devices.
But when the IdeaCentre C300 is tested to play HD video files, the result is not as smooth as the way we hope. In some sections, the picture somewhat broken. It does not matter if the played video is a standard multimedia files such as AVI, WMV, and MP4.
Intrigued with its 3D performance, then it was tested to play Doom 3. The result? It turned out pretty good. Much more smoother than when playing HD video. Of course you cannot compared it to Asus G51J. This real 3D Gaming notebook is not yet comparable.
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. Having a competitive price at about U.S. $ 599, C300 is worthy promoted as a leader among various mid-level AiO 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 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 C300 Specification
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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