New PC time. Meet the Lenovo Ideacenter Q180.

Despite being a massive fan of the Acer Aspire Revo 3600 that I bought a few years ago, my little £149.99 nettop is just a touch slow these days and could probably do with being upgraded.

My instant reaction was to go for the £174.97 Acer Aspire Revo 3700 and it would be a great choice too, however it’s 1.8GHz CPU would appear to have been trumped slightly by the 2.13GHz CPU in the £179.99 offering from Lenovo – The IdeaCenter Q180.

Yes you read those prices right.  I use Linux (free) and keep the price of my hardware as low as possible.  Any compromises on performance will be offset by operating system choice and subsequent tuning, although I’m not expecting to have to do an awful lot of that given it’s “whopping” 2GB RAM, 2.13GHz CPU and ATI Radeon graphics chip (full spec given below).  Watch this space.

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Processor

Intel Atom D2700 Dual Core 2.13GHz,
1MB L2 Cache

Memory

2GB DDR3 1066MHZ
soDIMM

Hard Drive

320GB SATA

Optical Drive

None

Software

Operating system: DOS

Display

Monitor Not Included

Graphics

ATI Radeon HD 6450 – 512MB

Networking

LAN: 10/100/1000 Gigabit Fast Ethernet
WLAN: 802.11b/g/n

Interfaces

3 x USB 2.0
2 x USB 3.0
1 x HDMI
1 x SPDIF

Expansion

7 in 1 Card Reader

Warranty

1 Year Manufacturer Warranty

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