Lenovo 3000 J115 Budget Desktop PC

While Lenovo wants to increase its image to the US consumers for PCs, systems such as the Lenovo 3000 J115 are still too focused on business customers and their very different needs. This makes the J115 a decent low cost business PC, but a terrible consumer desktop.

4/29/07 – Rather than focusing in on all the issues with the Lenovo 3000 J115, let's take a look at one of the things they did do well. While Intel may be on tops when it comes to mobile and high end desktop processors, AMD still offers a better performance value at the lower end of the price scale. Lenovo has chosen to use the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ dual core processor, still one of the best values when it comes to budget desktop computing and certainly better than the Pentium D's offered in budget desktops.

The problem with the J115 is that the specifications for the rest of the system don't match up to what other companies are offering consumers (or even businesses). All of the problems stem from the fact that Lenovo continues to focus on selling personal computer to business customers and not to the average consumer. While they have said they intend to change this, their current systems fail to meet that goal.

Take for instance the storage capabilities of the J115. With the costs of DVD burners being so low, most budget desktops and even notebook PCs now offer them as a standard feature. Lenovo still bundles the older CD-RW/DVD combo drives with their desktop PCs. This pretty much rules out the J115 for those looking to do some desktop video. The hard drive has increased in size to 160GB, but this is smaller than the 250GB average seen in the industry.

The net result is that the Lenovo J115 is still a business desktop computer system and not one that would fit the uses and needs of the average consumer.

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