Lenovo ThinkCentre Edge 71

Lenovo ThinkCentre Edge 71

The Lenovo ThinkCentre Edge 71 ($508 direct) is a standard entry-level tower desktop PC for your business. It's not perfect by any means, but it shows that you don't have to settle for buying two-generation old components in a $500 desktop PC. It's powerful enough to run today's apps, as well as tomorrow's business apps. It may be "just enough" for the business workers in your small shop, as such, it's our new Editors' Choice for entry-level business desktop PCs. The ThinkCentre Edge 71 is a reasonably attractive tower, due to styling cues like the carrying handle mounted on the top of the system above the optical drive. This handle can be used to quickly carry the system from a cart to the end user's desk. The Edge 71 has the usual tower proportions: it's a smidge wider than the optical drive's tray and is a lot taller than it is wide. The chassis is essentially matte black, with some red accents like on the system's handle. Inside the chassis, there's room for an additional hard drive, one more memory DIMM, a PCIe x16 graphics card and two PCIe x1 expansion cards. However, the system's relatively low-powered 180W power supply means that you won't be installing a high-end 200W graphics card anytime soon.