ThinkStation S20 Part. 5

Conclusion

Personally, i like the ThinkStation S20 for three reasons:

1. I like the black box design, after all i love all the classic Think products.

2. I know the ThinkStation format pretty well. Just yesterday it took me nearly 30 minutes to take out the optical drive on the Dell Precision 390 machine, because i couldn’t work out that the front face plate on the Dell Precision had to be removed along with this plastic holding plate prior to taking out the drive. So i guess i am use to the whole Think branded product, since they change fairly slowly and there is a swallow learning curve between the different model of these machines.

3. Because i got it extremely cheap (probably due to a pricing glitch on Lenovo’s part, their loss is my gain… haha).

There are constant sales event going on with these ThinkStation machines on Lenovo Australia’s website, which makes them a good investment if you are in a business or environment that requires ISV certified workstation machines with great onsite warranty suport. Obviously, there are also downsides to the ThinkStation S20 machines, such as lack of SLI and latest gaming card support. But then again they are not intended to be used as a gaming machine, but rather as a Workstation doing more productive things.

Finally, due to the lack of time available, i did not run many benchmark on the performance of this system, which i intend to do when i have more time available, so this review will be updated in the future (just follow my twitter account on @Lead_org). Obviously, if there are questions that you have about the ThinkStation S20, i will endeavour to answer them to the best of my ability.