Lenovo ThinkCentre M91p: Business-Class Desktop PC Lacks Frills

At a Glance

Expert's Rating

Cons

• Poor public presentation, for the price

Our Verdict

It has the look of an old-school ThinkPad, just you can pose similar functioning and better specs at a lower price.

If you love the old-school look of Lenovo ThinkPads, but you need desktop performance and pricing, check exterior Lenovo's ThinkCentre M91p series. This machine packs second-generation Intel processors into a slim, retro-style case.

Our followup model, priced at $1180 American Samoa of July 25, 2011, features an Intel Core i5-2500S processor pouring at 2.7GHz, 4GB of installed RAM, a 500GB insensitive drive, and a 64-bit variation of Windows 7 Professional.

The ThinkCentre M91p's carrying out was pretty solidified. In PCWorld's WorldBench 6 benchmark tests, it managed a respectable score of 142. By way of comparison, the Dingle Studio XPS 7100, the 5th-hierarchical screen background on our leaning of Top 10 Mainstream Desktop PCs chart, scored a 120, and the fourth-place Micro Express MicroFlex 25B scored a 188.

The ThinkCentre's graphics carrying into action is somewhat less eye-popping–not a surprising weakness considering that the system has no discrete graphics card and relies instead on the integrated graphics of its Sandy Bridge processor. In our Unreal Tournament 3 graphics tests, the ThinkCentre M91p managed a barely playable frame rate of 29.4 frames per second (at high upper-class settings and 1024-by-768-pixel resolution). Still, you'll be able to execute basic business tasks and stream video without a problem.

The ThinkCentre M91p looks and feels quite a a trifle suchlike the models in Lenovo's ThinkPad laptop line. The figure is slim and pitch blackness, and it constitutes the "ultrasmall form factor" member of the M91p series. The other cardinal ThinkCentre M91p machines are larger. Because our review good example was the ultrasmall version, you can't flummox into the case at all to upgrade. Our look back model had matte black aluminum sides and a pliant face with an old-school diagonal vent pattern.

The included peripherals similarly follow the ThinkPad design route: The black keyboard sports tasteless, evenly single-spaced keys and nary special buttons. The mouse is gnomish and Afro-American, with a red scroll-wheel that looks and feels a lot equal the red ThinkPad pointing nub. Neither skirting is wireless, but both are USB and comfortable to use.

The front of the ThinkCentre accommodates two USB ports, addition microphone and headphone jacks, and a tray-loading DVD-RW drive. Along the back of the reckoner are sextuplet more USB ports, gigabit ethernet, a microphone jack, dividing line-out and demarcation-in, Display Port, and VGA-out. To foil thieves who find the slim visibility of the ThinkCentre too enticing, thither's also a Kensington lock in slot.

The Lenovo ThinkCentre M91p is a solid performer, but otherwise it isn't terribly interesting. For example, it lacks the Blu-ray disc push back and integrated Wi-Fi of the HP Pavilion Slimline S5-1060, tied though the Slimline costs $350 less and somewhat outperformed the Lenovo in our WorldBench 6 tests.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/481336/review_lenovo_thinkcentre_m91p.html

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