General Description
Lenovo Thinkcentre M57 is a desktop designed for home and business use. M57 is based on Intel’s Core Duo technology and the performance is truly enhanced. It has superior features like you disable and enable individual USB ports. In addition, a complete hard drive back-up and one-button system recovery safeguards your data at all times. The product is available in black colour. This Lenovo desktop pc comes in Ultra Small form factor and it consumes low power and is eco-friendly.
Hard Drive and Memory:
Lenovo Thinkcentre M57 comes with an integrated SATA controller with type SATA-300 and has 3 channels. The controller uses RAID 0 and 1 technology. The capacity of the drive is 80 GB of type SATA-300 and can be upgraded to a maximum of 250 GB and operational speed is 7200 RPM.
M57 has a two DDR channels that works on DDR II SDRAM technology. The memory speed is 667 MHz and the product comes with 1 GB of factory installed RAM. The memory can be upgraded to a maximum of 4 GB.
Processor and chipset:
Lenovo Thinkcentre M57 is built using the Intel Core duo technology that has features like Intel Execute Disable Bit, Enhanced Intel Speed Step Technology, Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology. It also has cache of type L2 and installed cache memory is 2 MB. The speed of the processor is 2 GHz. The chipset used in this machine is Intel Q35 express with a speed of 1.3 GHz. The compatible processors are Intel Core2 Duo Processor, Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor and Intel Celeron Processor
Monitor Type and Size:
Thinkcentre M57 is not supplied with any monitor by default. It has standard VGA port, DVI and TV-out ports. Thinkcentre will support CRT, Flat Panel and wide screen display types. Media Devices comes with CD-RW/DVD-ROM.  There is no floppy drive supplied with the box. You can purchase it separately.
Graphics:
Lenovo Thinkcentre M57 comes with an integrated Intel Graphics media accelerator 3100 series card. The graphics card features includes 3D enhancements that enables greater flexibility and scalability and improved realism with support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0c. The optional video cards that are compatible with this model are ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT with 256MB memory and ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro with 128MB memory.
Sound Card and Speakers:
Thinkcentre M57 comes with integrated high definition sound from Intel. Integrated audio support enables premium digital sound and delivers advanced features such as multiple audio streams and jack re-tasking. M57 comes with a built in speakers.
Ports available in this laptop are 1 x Display / video – VGA – 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15).
Operating System comes with pre- installed Microsoft Windows Vista Business. The product comes with 4 years warranty with parts and labour.
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