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Lenovo's ThinkCentre A70z (1165A2M) is an all-in-one desktop PC that's designed to save space yet still provide good performance when running office applications. It's aimed at business users, but its compact footprint and the ease with which it can be set up should also appeal to students and families who don't want anything too fancy.
The Lenovo ThinkCentre A70z (1165A2M) is very much a workhorse PC devoid of bells and whistles, not to mention modern conveniences such an SD card reader, video ports or an eSATA connection. The model we looked at even lacks a wireless networking adapter such as IBM thinkpaq X60 AC adapter, IBM thinkpaq Z60 AC adapter, IBM Lenovo 310 AC adapter, IBM ThinkPad E AC adapter, IBM ThinkPad 235 AC adapter, IBM 02K7096 AC adapter, IBM 93P5006 AC adapter, Lenovo 40Y7710 AC adapter, Lenovo 41R4526 AC adapter, Lenovo 45K2209 AC adapter, IBM 92P1212 AC adapter, IBM 85G6698 AC adapter. However, it possesses good speed — and that's the main concern when you need to get your work done, whether you're in the office or at home.
Setting up the ThinkCentre A70z (1165A2M) is a breeze; all you have to do is plug in the power cable and the USB keyboard and mouse. The power supply is built in to the PC, so you won't have to accommodate a bulky power brick under a desk; it means this is a very neat PC. It has a picture frame–like stand that's made out of metal and has a rubber strip on the bottom for grip, but you can also install an optional wall mount or monitor stand.
Setting up the software is a little more involved; it asks you if you want to install virus protection, make backups, install a trial version of Microsoft Office 2007, and register your PC. It only takes a minute or so, but it's inconvenient nonetheless.
The PC portion of the ThinkCentre A70z resides within the monitor panel and it gives the unit an overall thickness of almost 7cm. On the inside, it has an Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5300 CPU, which runs at 2.6GHz. Combined with 2GB of DDR2 SDRAM and a 7200rpm, 320GB Serial ATA drive, the ThinkCentre A70z is pretty quick. In our WorldBench 6 benchmark suite the PC recorded fast times in all the individual applications. In Adobe Photoshop, it took 415sec to complete a workload, which is only 16sec slower than what a pre-production A70z running a 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo and 4GB of DDR3 RAM recorded. In the media encoding test it was 18sec slower, while in the office productivity test it was 7sec slower.
This translates into fast performance when running typical office applications, as well image editing, video editing and file compression programs. Multitasking will also be a breeze. In the Blender 3D rendering and iTunes MP3 encoding tests, the dual-core CPU's speed was plainly evident; it recorded a time of 1min 09sec in the Blender test and 1min 06sec in the iTunes test. To put it in perspective, these times are only about 18sec slower than what a Core i5-661 based PC can accomplish with two cores plus Hyper-Threading.
Graphics is the one area in which the ThinkCentre A70z isn't strong. It uses an integrated Intel G41 graphics chip, which is fine for running office applications, but you won't want to use it for processing real-time 3D graphics (such as games). It achieved a relatively low score of 828 in 3DMark06 and it's not as fast as what an all-in-one based on NVIDIA's ION platform can achieve, for example. However, it's fast enough for running productivity applications and editing high resolution images.
The ThinkCentre A70z is a little underdone considering it doesn't have an SD card slot or built-in wireless networking, but it's nevertheless a zippy machine on which you can comfortably run office applications and more. It will cope with image editing, file compression and even video tasks, and its screen resolution of 1440x900 is fine for multitasking. If you want a neat all-in-one solution that won't cost you a lot of money, then the A70z it's well worth considering.