Lenovo a 10!
No, it's not a new late night comedy show with a big-jawed goomba at the wheel, the IdeaCentre A600 is a snazzy all-in-one desktop loaded with bells, whistles and kazoos to boot. No, thank goodness, it doesn't do an opening monologue. It will, however, warn you if you get too close to the screen for safety. Yes, Hal, I will drink my Tang now, too....
If coolness and sleek lines were all that mattered, we at AGT would give this baby the Raymond Loewy Award straightaway. Easily mistaken for a compact, James Bondian flatscreen TV, the A600 features a 21.5" viewing area, comes with Vista Home Premium and a matched pair of 2GHz Intel processors. Four gigs of RAM insure mega-multi-tasking ability and zippy performance. The slot-loading optical drive is so seamlessly integrated you could almost overlook it at first. And the screen tilts 15 degrees forward and 5 back depending on personal preference.
The A600 signals a quantum leap forward for Lenovo, whose major impact heretofore has been among suit-and-tie types. This streamlined beauty is equally useful at home as at the sweatshop, and will satisfy gamers as well as HD-movie watchers with its crisp, 1920X1080 resolution. The high end units will also spin Blu-Ray discs. Adding to its Cool Quotient is the multi-function media remote/gyroscopic mouse/VOIP handset/game controller, layer-caking the all-in-oneness of this incomparable machine. Wireless keyboard, yes, wireless mouse, of course, looks great, sounds great -- what else could one ask for except two toaster slots and a loaf of bread?
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A Detroit native, David Weiss fled Motown for Los Angeles in 1978 and began to write for Daily Variety and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, primarily as a music critic with a focus on jazz. His own music career started soon thereafter, with the surrealistic funk band Was (Not Was), then various gigs as a composer and producer, working with Bob Dylan and Rickie Lee Jones among others. In a parallel universe, Weiss has been filing golf and travel stories for T&L Golf, Golfweek and The New York Times and is a regular contributor to NPR's "Day to Day" program, doing stories on music and all things cultural.
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