They're a far cry from being beautiful, but they're also tremendously
more powerful than that joke-of-a-machine you're using now. In an effort
to help those who live and breathe within Excel experience a life
filled with fewer frustrations,
Lenovo
is cranking out a pair of new desktops for the working world. Both the
ThinkStation E30 and ThinkCentre M81 can be outfitted with Intel's Sandy
Bridge CPUs, and the E30 can be equipped with an 80GB or 160GB SSD,
NVIDIA's Quadro / NVS graphics, up to 16GB of memory, USB 3.0 and a SATA
III interface. The M81 steps down a bit with integrated Intel graphics
(or a discrete ATI option), but both rigs are optimized for fast start
up and shut down time under Lenovo's Enhanced Experience (EE) 2.0 for
Windows 7 program. The bad news? $629 and $599 starting points in order
of mention, and you'll have to wait until late April / early May to get
your grubby paws around one. Full release is after the break, per usual.
