Lenovo M57 Intel Dual-Core USFF Desktop Price: $59.99 Shipping Options:: $5 Standard Shipping Estimates: Ships in 3-5 Business Days. (Wednesday, Dec 16 to Monday, Dec 21) + transit Condition: Refurbished
Newegg link above for 750GB (1TB possibly) hard drive. Also reviews aren’t that stellar. This might make a decent point of sale machine if you need serial and parallel for cheap.
There is no exact model number listed, as there are many different versions of the Lenovo ThinkCentre M57 – There should be a “Type #” listed as part of the specs. Its hard to make a decision about the product without all the necessary information about exact model. Does anyone know which “Type #”?
On Black Friday last year I bought 3 of the model M55 in this series from Newegg on a similar deal, the M55 model had a slower 1.8ghz Core2Duo and 80gb hdd and same 2gb RAM. After all discounts they came to around $40 each.
I figured at that price I was getting a Windows 7 license and could use the PC’s as budget desktops in a business.
Like this one they came with Windows Home Premium not Pro which you will need to install on any business network with a domain.
The units I got were pretty rough. If they come from the same refurbisher they (unnecessarily) black out any scratches on the case with a black marker. I ended up painting the cases with matte black paint.
They are well engineered, built like tanks, ran Windows 8 better than expected. Like this model they had two RAM slots with a gig in each so any upgrades require new memory but unlike this model the M55 used SIMM’s, this one uses laptop SODIMMS I see.
In for one. The specs say…
(1) External Slim 5.25-inch bays
(2) Internal 3.5-inch bay
I assume the cd/dvd is in the 5.25" bay and the hard drive is in one of the 3.5" bays, leaving room for one more hard drive. Can anyone confirm this takes 3.5" SATA hard drives for sure? I’m ordering a 1TB drive for more room. Also, is this UEFI or standard BIOS? Wanting to install Linux on second drive.