SupremeAC said:Are all in one's any good these days? In my mind they're underspecced and overpriced.
I bought, sight unseen a PC for my inlaws (just called up my guy and he gave me the specs and price. So when I opened it up and saw it was an all-in-one I was initially put out. In my long experience with IT, al-in-ones for whatever you are doing are lower quality and if one thing breaks, then you have to throw out the whole thing.
However, for the application of a family computer, it was a lower price than buying a new PC and monitor and it's specs were spot on (that is it runs W11 pretty snappily so even if they did use it like a traditional computer and not just a portal to the internet it would have the power needed).
So yeah, in my experience, with this one HP at least, the all-in-ones are good these days.
My father has an all-in-one Dell, and it's surprisingly good. You can also modify basic things like ram and hard drive. Not cheap, though. Instead of going the all-in one route, given you have monitors, you could make a lightweight gaming PC with a small-form factor APU system. APUs are surpisingly powerful these days. It can then be a secret gaming PC, without the price giving away your real intentions.
Foolz said:My father has an all-in-one Dell, and it's surprisingly good. You can also modify basic things like ram and hard drive. Not cheap, though. Instead of going the all-in one route, given you have monitors, you could make a lightweight gaming PC with a small-form factor APU system. APUs are surpisingly powerful these days. It can then be a secret gaming PC, without the price giving away your real intentions.
Yeah, having the dual monitors is a luxury I cannot do without, but I would not be using that computer at all, except for the podcast (maybe, I may make the laptop the podcast machine so I could record when I am off-site). Small factor APC is attractive though... any reccomendations?
Also foolz, I have to figure out a soundboard situation.
The bummer thing too is wasting my GPU, foolz if you want it I'll send it over.
Well, step one is done, I've bought a mini-pc for the farm business. Review will follow when I get it.
Current PC will move to the TV for gaming, then I stil lhave to figure out if I get a gaming laptop or gaming PC for the media room.
The old one, despite the upgrade 4 years ago is dying. Windows 10 just does not like my GPU and they constantly fight, taking turns to turns deactivating each other. It's like my first wife all over again.
So, I am thinking of getting a vanilla all-in-one for the family PC and a gaming laptop for myself, with the thought being that I could take it when I travel, and also plug it into whichever TV I get access to.
Tell me why I'm wrong, give me some advice.