Lenovo Thinkcenter M72z All-in-One -- at Newegg.ca
I came across https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883795779 $1000 -> $340 Not sure how upgradable it is, but as "all-in-one" goes, it's cheap. -- William
| From: William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | I came across https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883795779 | $1000 -> $340 | Not sure how upgradable it is, but as "all-in-one" goes, it's cheap. Offer ends today. It is interesting if it is something you want. - refurbished. This is probably off-lease (the product is quite old). Some folks have had bad experiences with refurbished products sold through NewEgg.ca. + i7 processor - i7 3770s (four generations back). The "s" means lower power and lower speed (but not laptop level) -- probably a good tradeoff. - unspecified video resolution. Probably lower than I'd like. Probably 1600 x 900. No idea if it is IPS. It might be a touch-screen (but I think that they would have mentioned that). - unspecified connectivity. Does it have USB 3? Does it have HDMI? Probably: USB 2-only, gigabit ethernet, DisplayPort, stereo in and out. - doesn't say who did the refurbishment. 1 year warranty is apparently included (good!) but then they want to charge you an additional $40 for a one year "hassle free replacement" warranty. Does that mean that the included warranty includes hassles? - There is no indication of who provides the default warranty (there are indications that it isn't NewEgg). - don't forget to add the $15 shipping. - There is no indication what the exact model is. There are lots of models of the M72z. Here's a list of the most popular variants: <http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/withdraw/M72z.pdf>
On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 04:05:48PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
Offer ends today.
It is interesting if it is something you want.
- refurbished. This is probably off-lease (the product is quite old). Some folks have had bad experiences with refurbished products sold through NewEgg.ca.
+ i7 processor
- i7 3770s (four generations back). The "s" means lower power and lower speed (but not laptop level) -- probably a good tradeoff.
Well I don't think a 65W versus 77W is that much low power, and 3.1GHz versus 3.4GHz on the regular 3770 isn't that different.
- unspecified video resolution. Probably lower than I'd like. Probably 1600 x 900. No idea if it is IPS. It might be a touch-screen (but I think that they would have mentioned that).
I don't think they would have put IPS in that thing. Even a lot of the high end thinkpads didn't get IPS panels at that time (grumble grumble grumble).
- unspecified connectivity. Does it have USB 3? Does it have HDMI? Probably: USB 2-only, gigabit ethernet, DisplayPort, stereo in and out.
Displayport they have. Microphone and headphone yes. USB 2.0 (2 on front, 4 on back it appears). Gigabit ethernet (crappy RTL8111, but it's there). Displayport is almost certainly DP+ meaning passive adapters to HDMI and others are easy and cheap.
- doesn't say who did the refurbishment. 1 year warranty is apparently included (good!) but then they want to charge you an additional $40 for a one year "hassle free replacement" warranty. Does that mean that the included warranty includes hassles?
- There is no indication of who provides the default warranty (there are indications that it isn't NewEgg).
- don't forget to add the $15 shipping.
- There is no indication what the exact model is. There are lots of models of the M72z. Here's a list of the most popular variants: <http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/withdraw/M72z.pdf>
Yes that info would help a lot. -- Len Sorensen
On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 02:01:41PM -0500, William Park via talk wrote:
I came across https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883795779 $1000 -> $340 Not sure how upgradable it is, but as "all-in-one" goes, it's cheap.
They don't even tell you what model it is. I would guess it is a non touch screen model, with a 1600x900 display. It does appear to be a real core i7, not one of the lesser embedded versions, so it does have 4 cores and 8 threads. Of course putting a nice cpu like that in something with a tiny display and intel graphics seems cruel. It looks like the ram can be expanded to 2x8GB DDR3-12800 SODIMM (so fairly common laptop ram). Disk appears to be standard laptop SATA drive. Not a machine I would consider buying. All the disadvantages of a laptop without any of the advantages. -- Len Sorensen
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