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The IBM desktop, a powerful and adaptable beast, represents good value for money, particularly at the low price Gooshing gets you for it. In addition, provided you don't leave it on standby, the ThinkCentre A50 (VE57EUK) has few ethical drawbacks. And its parent company, IBM Corp, has received a high Gooshing ethical score.
The award of this score by Gooshing follows a thorough review of the policies of IBM Corp on such issues as energy efficiency, animal testing and organic certification. Thus a high Gooshing score is praise indeed. Please click on the stars above to access a full review of the ethical policies of IBM Corp.
Gooshing's search of over 350 retailers gets you the best price at which to buy the ThinkCentre A50 (VE57EUK). Please click through to buy at this price or get more information.
The ThinkCentre A50 desktops feature a tool-free chassis design, which simplifies and enhances usability. Encased in a durable steel chassis, components inside the machine, such as the hard disk and memory, can easily be removed by the user, making the PC serviceable and upgradeable, helping to limit the downtime and cost associated with on-site support. This tower model is configured with a 2.6GHz Pentium 4 processor, a 512KB L2 cache, a 40GB hard drive and 256MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM, expandable to 4GB. In addition to the 400MHz front bus speed, this A50 contains a 3.5 1.44MB floppy drive, three open PCI slots, two open bays and a 48X (max. speed) CD-ROM drive. For your communications needs, it offers an integrated 10/100 Ethernet controller. The Intel Extreme Graphics 2 chipset delivers sharp visuals, supporting resolutions up to 2048 x 1536 in millions of colors, while the SoundMAX Cadenza audio with built in speaker provides life-like sound. Windows XP Professional is pre-installed. |
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| Brand |
IBM |
The manufacturer of the Desktop PC |
| CPU Brand |
Intel |
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| CPU Speed |
3.2 GHz |
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| CPU Type |
Intel Pentium 4 |
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| Hard Drive Size |
80 GB |
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| Internal Memory |
256MB |
The capacity of the Desktop PC's memory in megabytes (does not take into account the storage device). |
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ThinkCentre A50 (VE57EUK) |
The individual model name and number of the Desktop PC |
| Operating System |
Microsoft Windows XP Professional |
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