techPowerUp! Forums - View Single Post - ViewSonic Ships All-in-One PC, First Model of Computer Initiative

lemonadesoda · Jun 29, 2009, 03:10 PM

Agree. Too much bezel. They should have made it deeper, and improved the quality of the speakers, and made the visual footprint smaller.

Why make something SO THIN, yet needs a big "foot" to balance it, and needs so much blank space to incorporate a flat-speaker system. At least they remebered a VESA mounting system.

But, IMO, it is a BAD DESIGN.

An Atom 2xx or Zxx is underpowered for a desktop replacement. It is not suitable for "office settings, to call centers, libraries, school computer labs". An Atom 330 might have *just* survived, but a single core Atom? No. The power/performance is like going back to Pentium 3/early pentium 4 days. We dont want that. And GPU? No mention of what it is running.

They've really built this on the cheap, hoping for a few lucky sales, rather than saying, HEY, let's do a great machine here. Really attractive to the corporate/public workplace.

I think I'd rather go with a Dell or iMac. OOOHHH SHOCK HORROR!

System Name:	ICE-QUAD // ICE-CRUNCH
Processor:	Q6600 // 2x Xeon 5472
Memory:	2GB DDR // 8GB FB-DIMM
Video Card:	HD3850-AGP // FireGL 3400
CRT/LCD Model:	2 x Samsung 204Ts = 3200x1200
Sound Card:	Audigy 2
Software:	Windows Server 2003 R2 as a Workstation

Jun 29, 2009, 03:10 PM	#5
lemonadesoda Eligible for custom title Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 5,337 (2.17/day) Thanks: 749 Thanked 960 Times in 710 Posts System Specs	Agree. Too much bezel. They should have made it deeper, and improved the quality of the speakers, and made the visual footprint smaller. Why make something SO THIN, yet needs a big "foot" to balance it, and needs so much blank space to incorporate a flat-speaker system. At least they remebered a VESA mounting system. But, IMO, it is a BAD DESIGN. An Atom 2xx or Zxx is underpowered for a desktop replacement. It is not suitable for "office settings, to call centers, libraries, school computer labs". An Atom 330 might have just survived, but a single core Atom? No. The power/performance is like going back to Pentium 3/early pentium 4 days. We dont want that. And GPU? No mention of what it is running. They've really built this on the cheap, hoping for a few lucky sales, rather than saying, HEY, let's do a great machine here. Really attractive to the corporate/public workplace. I think I'd rather go with a Dell or iMac. OOOHHH SHOCK HORROR!