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Brandon Hill (Blog) - February 23, 2006 6:54 PM

16 comment(s) - last by wandergeist.. on Feb 25 at 5:53 PM

Lenovo 3000 J Series desktop

Lenovo launches new desktop machines in 10 global markets

We brought you news earlier today of Lenovo's first non-Thinkpad branded notebook computers. The other big news from Lenovo today is that they are also launching a new line of Lenovo desktop computers as well. Lenovo is already a well known brand in China and it is now expanding its presence to 10 global markets including the United States, Canada, Mexico, The United Kingdom, France, Germany and Russia.

Lenovo's new desktops will target small and mid-size businesses and will be available with processors from both AMD and Intel. AMD systems already account for 50% of Lenovo's sales in China and the strong relationship between the two companies should expand in future Lenovo products (one can only hope for dual-core Turions in Lenovo's notebook future).

The Lenovo J105 desktops ($349 starting price) will feature VIA K8M800 based motherboards coupled with either an AMD Sempron or Athlon processor. Lenovo's J100 desktops ($499 starting price) will feature a SiS 661 chipset and will be powered by either Pentium 4 or Celeron D processors. Both model ranges feature serial ATA drive support and 6 USB 2.0 ports along with a one year warranty.

The new J100 and J105 will be available at lenovo.com and through retail partners like Office Depot.

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no via please

By 8steve8 on 2/23/06, Rating: 0

RE: no via please

By Xenoterranos on 2/23/2006 9:16:07 PM , Rating: 1

Via used to be one of the best chipsets available, and still is pretty darn good...just not nearly as good as nforce. Oh, and sis IS crap, so don't sully via's name by including the two in the same language.

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RE: no via please

By DrMrLordX on 2/23/2006 9:22:40 PM , Rating: 3

VIA has actually improved over the years. The only reason why people are down on them now is due to Nvidia's dominance in the AMD chipset market. VIA either can't or won't keep up.

SiS doesn't deserve to be bashed, though. They have never made a good overclocking platform, but for standard use, their CHIPSETS are good. Very good, in fact. They've had some excellent implementation of onboard NICs. Sadly, SiS chipsets tend to get stuck in otherwise crappy boards, so SiS looks bad as result.

My old SiS735 board still runs(albeit for someone else) and is reliable as always.

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RE: no via please

By Samus on 2/23/2006 9:29:10 PM , Rating: 3

just what i want, a via chipset in a computer i need to rely on for work...

You'd rather have an nvidia chipset? Did it ever occur to you why nvidia chipsets are not present in ANY OEM systems?

What surprises me is why they didn't opt for the new ATI RS482 chipsets like Compaq/HP and eMachines have.

They might be trying to differentiate themselves from the market leaders, or they just got a stellar deal from VIA. However, VIA K8 chipsets are very mature at this point (ala ATI's USB performance)

nVidia has never made a very good impression with OEM's, considering the numerous bugs that must be worked out in bios implementations, chip revisions and generally the need for active northbridge cooling. Remember, these are OEM systems, performance isn't goal #1, stability is. nVidia makes the highest performance chipsets, there's no doubt about that, but it's quite arguable they are not as stable as the competitions.

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RE: no via please

By defter on 2/24/2006 1:47:52 AM , Rating: 2

"You'd rather have an nvidia chipset? Did it ever occur to you why nvidia chipsets are not present in ANY OEM systems?"

Really?: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productde...

I'm sure there are lot others.

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RE: no via please

By Viditor on 2/24/2006 6:36:22 AM , Rating: 2

Actually, Nforce is on a very large number of OEM systems...even servers (Nforce Pro).

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RE: no via please

By Griswold on 2/25/2006 12:23:33 PM , Rating: 2

If you find a respectable server vendor offering nforce pro, show me please. :)

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RE: no via please

By wandergeist on 2/25/2006 5:53:17 PM , Rating: 2

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/prolian...
Assuming you consider HP a respectable server vendor.

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RE: no via please

By mxzrider2 on 2/23/2006 9:50:24 PM , Rating: 2

viz on a64 is really good. they are very mature, but not realy that up to date, and sis chipsets for a64 kick ass, i have a foxconn board in an other comp using it, even anandtech here gave it a editors choice. so obviously you havent kept up on the times

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RE: no via please

By AaronAxvig on 2/23/2006 10:16:05 PM , Rating: 2

Do you really think that a LARGE corporation like Lenovo is really going to ship an untested product. I would expect that the vast majority of any computers they ship will be highly reliable (like all other OEM company's offerings). They simply can't afford to have a reputation of shipping a buggy chipset (to most people it would just seem to be a crappy computer, as they don't know what a chipset is), so obviously the Via they chose is much better than you think.

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RE: no via please

By goku on 2/24/2006 3:23:12 AM , Rating: 2

Buaahahahaha, yes I think a coporation [i]like lenovo[/i] would ship a computer that had a crappy chipset, making it terribly unreliable. They do it all the time and get away with it because a few people's out cries aren't really going to be noticed, even with dell's now shoddy technical support, people still buy from them. My sister's '04 dell laptop broke with in a year, we had to do a full replace on the motherboard because the system overheated. Now, it has some sort of screen burn it at the lower part of the screen but because their crappy 1 yr warranty ended, we can't get it fixed.. :|

And sony releases notoriously unreliable systems all the time, infact I don't think I've ever worked on a sony vaio system made past 1996 that WAS RELIABLE. Their piss poor drivers with their proprietary drivers can make any competent computer technician want to rip out their hair. It's depressing that in this day in age, the only system that you can get that is reliable is one you build your self... :|

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Crap

By Alphafox78 on 2/24/2006 12:53:22 PM , Rating: 2

My company uses IBM desktops primairly for most of our clients, and by mistake I ordered two of the P4 based 'new' sytems shown in the arcticle. We are used to getting other IBM models which have PCIe and DDR2. this 'new' system was a POS with DDR1 and AGP and an SiS chipset, and come to find out it was $20 MORE than the other machines we were getting. say away from these models, they are not worth it when you can get a PCIe based PC for less.

RE: Crap

By Griswold on 2/25/2006 12:28:49 PM , Rating: 2

And what would an office PC need PCIe for?

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I hate everyone

By retrospooty on 2/24/2006 8:21:48 PM , Rating: 2

that is all

AMD fan here

By Bull Dog on 2/23/2006 10:48:01 PM , Rating: 1

Bully for AMD!

You guys are all idiots talking about AMD chipsets

By Zebo on 2/24/2006 6:21:46 AM , Rating: 1

It's not an issue since AMD makes the chipset - it's on the damn CPU - notice how identically ALL A64 boards perform - sis/via/nvidia/ati/uli does'nt matter they perform identical because AMD took them out of the equation by putting the main part of any chipset on the CPU, the mem controller.