Unboxing & first look at the new Lenovo IdeaCentre C300 nettop

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 | Lenovo Nettops with Comments

Unboxing the new Lenovo IdeaCentre C300 nettop

Lenovo sent us their new entry in the nettop ‘All-In-One’ market today – the IdeaCentre C300. The C300 is a combination of a 20″ widescreen display coupled with a single or dual core Intel Atom 230 or 330 (dual core) processor.

There are three models in the C300 lineup, ranging from this $449 entry level model, up the $699 top of the line dual core version. Graphics are supplied by Intel’s integrated Media Accelerator in the first two models of the lineup, but the highest spec C300, gets grahpics from ATI’s Mobility Radeon HD 4530 PCI Express card, packing 512mb of dedicated memory. Hard drives range from 160gb in the entry level model up to 640gb and RAM comes is available from 1-4gb.

The full lineup and specs can be seen here at Lenovo, while the C300 is already selling for $449 here at Amazon (via TigerDirect).

Lenovo IdeaCentre C300 All-In-One nettop

We’ll have a full review of this new nettop later this week, but on first impression we’re impressed by the form factor of this nettop from Lenovo. From the keyboard to the PC itself, Lenovo seems to have made an effort to keep the size and footprint of this nettop to a minimum. Fit and finish seems good, but the high gloss piano black surface on the nettop and keyboard is already covered in fingerprints. Setup was a breeze but we were surprised to see a PS/2 keyboard connector instead of USB, but that does free up a USB port otherwise used.

See the full set of unboxing pictures after the break, and don’t forget to check back later this week for our in-depth review.

Lenovo IdeaCentre C300 Unboxing

PS/2 Keyboard!, USB Mouse and 120w laptop sytle power adaptor

Lenovo IdeaCentre C300 Nettop

All-In-One design is slim and features a small footprint.

Standard array of input and output ports

IdeaCentre C300

Front View of the IdeaCentre C300

Lenovo IdeaCentre C300 unboxing & first look

Lenovo IdeaCentre C300 unboxing and first look

IdeaCentre C300 Front indicator lights and graphics

Windows XP standard on entry-level, Vista on others

Powered by Intel Atom 230 single and dual core processors

Lenovo IdeaCentre C300

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joshsmith13

Is it possible to wall mount this using standard VESA mounts? Couldn't see any holes from the images so I'm guessing not. I'd really like one to tack onto a wall.

zima

Those machines really need, IMHO, hardware video input to drive built-in monitor by external PC ("gaming" system that is usually turned off, or to act as second monitor for a laptop, etc.). Similarly to how certain monitors have two inputs, and you can choose between them in OSD menu...only in this case one of them would be already occupied by built-in Atom nettop.

It's just a shame to waste potential for such (simple) functionality...

gil

thks for posting

Mike

What's the performance difference like between the dual core version and the single core version. What kind of difference does the AIT graphics card make? Can you do a side by side comparison?