Lenovo Desktops

The Bottom Line: Don't let the 20-inch screen fool you. The Lenovo C300 is still a Nettop, and thus still not worth your money. With its terrible performance and limited convenience benefit, a true budget PC or a Netbook would be a wiser purchase.

Specs: Intel Atom 330 (1.6 GHz), 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 640 GB Standard, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Personal computer

The Bottom Line: The heart of Lenovo's IdeaCentre A600 is in the right place, offering a 21.5-inch LCD-based all-in-one for less than $800. But a faster competitor and a careless design turns us off from this particular A600 configuration. You might consider a different A600 build if you can live with the design, but we can't recommend the $749 version.

Specs: Intel Pentium T4200 (2 GHz), 3 GB DDR3 SDRAM, 500 GB Standard, Intel GMA 4500, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Personal computer

The Bottom Line: Any business interested in cutting its power bills generated by its work-a-day desktop fleet might be interested in the ThinkCentre A61e, but home office workers or anyone interested in a smaller PC should stay far away from this system that has a major performance and features deficit compared to other small desktops.

Specs: AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 (2.1 GHz), 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 160 GB Standard, ATI Radeon X1200, EPA Energy Star, EPEAT Gold, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Personal computer

The Bottom Line: The Lenovo ThinkCentre A60 offers no-nonsense security features that business users need, along with decent components for a reasonable price. Only its short warranty gives us pause.

Specs: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (2.2 GHz), 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 250 GB Standard, NVIDIA GeForce 6100, EPA Energy Star, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Personal computer

Specs: Intel Pentium 4 530 (3 GHz), 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 40 GB Standard, Intel GMA 900, EPA Energy Star, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Personal computer

Specs: Intel Atom 230 (1.6 GHz), 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 160 GB Standard, NVIDIA ION, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Personal computer

Specs: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.13 GHz), 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 80 GB Standard, Intel GMA 3000, EPA Energy Star, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Personal computer

Specs: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (2.2 GHz), 256 MB DDR SDRAM, 80 GB Standard, VIA UniChrome Pro, EPA Energy Star, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Personal computer

Specs: Intel Pentium 4 524 (3.06 GHz), 512 MB DDR2 SDRAM, 80 GB Standard, Intel GMA 3000, EPA Energy Star, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Personal computer

Specs: Intel Atom 230 (1.6 GHz), 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 1 TB Hot-swap, Intel GMA 950, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server