The ThinkCentre M55p series offers a blend of essential features and technology. The ThinkCentre M55p systems offer industry-leading technologies, excellent management... more...capabilities, and service and support.
Advantages: The case dosn't look too bad Disadvantages: Addequate but outdated CPU
significantly lower than Lenovo is 3Ghz upwards. Quite how the ThinkCentre A55 hopes to even try to compete with other manufacturers offering 3-4Ghz CPU's with a price tag of around £50 less is somewhat of a mystery. Having said that, as my mate has proven with flying colours.."there is one born every minute"
The memory installed is on a par with most budget PC's and is supplied with 512Mb DDR II SDRAM. Thankfully memory these days is a relatively cheap upgrade option.
The hard drive installed again is somewhat below acceptable for the price tag. The A55 is supplied with an 80Gb hard drive. Although this size of drive is acceptable, for £400 you would expect something around 100 -120Gb in size.
The graphics card is on-board as is the norm with all budget PC's. The graphics memory is shared with the PC's RAM and is adjustable via the PC ...
Advantages: Slimline, Well Featured, Looks Good Disadvantages: No Firewire, Not thought out properly
ThinkCentre... Think Smarter
IBM?s range of workstations have always been backed up with a long history, after all shouldn?t IBM be the experts, they did ?invent? the PC after all! IBM?s ThinkCentre range represents IBM?s mid-range business workstations, enough power and multimedia capabilities to run the top end office and productivity, whilst keeping costs down to make the systems as affordable as possible. A hidden but equally important part of the ThinkCentres resides inside the computer and installed on the hard drives, these discrete design decisions and software packages that are shipped with the machines. I have recently installed 86 IBM ThinkCentre S50?s at work; this review is my attempt to distil my experiences into words.
WHATS IN THE BOX?
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When the box arrives at your door, or in my case three ...
CE, UL, TUV GS, C-Tick, ISO 9241-3, VCCI Class B ITE, GOST, BSMI CNS 13438 Class B, cUL, NOM, SABS, SASO, CB, FCC Part 15 B, CCC, IRAM, ACPI 2.3
Features
Security lock slot (cable lock sold separately), administrator password, hard drive password, power-on password, boot without keyboard or mouse, diskette I/O control, parallel port I/O control, serial port I/O control, USB port control, boot sequence control, thermal monitoring, voltage monitoring, fan speed monitoring, Intel Active Management Technology (iAMT)
Power
Power Provided
225 Watt
Voltage Required
AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 Hz )
Device Type
Power supply
Operating system / software
Microsoft Office Ready
Includes a preinstalled image of select 2007 Microsoft Office suites. Purchase a Medialess License Kit (MLK) to activate the software.
OS Provided
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Manufacturer's product description
The ThinkCentre M55p series offers a blend of essential features and technology. The ThinkCentre M55p systems offer industry-leading technologies, excellent management capabilities, and service and support.
