Laptops & Desktops

John Morris & Sean Portnoy

HP goes all in with a bevy of new all-in-one desktops for home and business

By | September 7, 2011, 6:26am PDT

Summary: Its fate still somewhat uncertain as it appears less likely that it will find a suitor, the HP PC business continues to pump out new products. Today it unleashes a slew of new all-in-one desktops at varying price points and for both home and business customers. At the low end, the Omni 120 includes a 20-inch [...]

Its fate still somewhat uncertain as it appears less likely that it will find a suitor, the HP PC business continues to pump out new products. Today it unleashes a slew of new all-in-one desktops at varying price points and for both home and business customers.

At the low end, the Omni 120 includes a 20-inch screen, 750GB hard drive, and processor options from AMD and Intel, while the Omni 220 comes with a 21.5-inch screen and select configurations with integrated Beats Audio and Intel Sandy Bridge quad-core processors. The 120 will be available on the 21st starting at $399.99 and the 220 on the 11th from $799.99.

There are also three new TouchSmart lines for home consumers: the 20-inch 320, 21.5-inch 420, and 23-inch 520. Their screens rotate 30 degrees in order to make it easier to use the touchscreen interface, and all feature integrated Beats Audio. The company has even rolled out a HP Pulse Subwoofer to pair with the 520 (or the already available TouchSmart 610). The 320 is due October 2 starting at $599.99, and the 420 and 520 on the 11th starting at $699.99 and $899.99, respectively.

Finally, small businesses will get two new all-in-ones. The TouchSmart Elite 7320 packs a 21.5-inch LED-backlit display, your choice of Sandy Bridge processor (Core i3, i5, or i7), and the HP TouchSmart Suite of biz apps. The Pro 3420 eschews the touchscreen but includes, according to HP’s press release, “integrated webcams and premium stereo speakers for instant face-to-face communication with remote employees.” You get a choice of Core i3 processors, up to 8GB of memory and 2TB of storage, and HP ProtectTools security suite. The Elite 7320 starts at $850 and will be available on the 21st, while the Pro 3420 is expected in October for $599 and up.

[Via Engadget]

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RE: HP has always done it well with high-end processor options.
Rob T. 9th Sep
@eabyrd > the only thing I would like to add, since I too and my family as well have purchased primarily from HP, is their Elite branded computers have always been great performing and recoverable computers. But, I now build my own systems taking advantage of costing and quality with the addition of an additional hard drive in all my systems to archive a complete recovery backup image of my operating system and files. Note: I do think that there is very little room for profit in the PC business today and HP has got no wiggle room to escape consumer demand for value and performance ; less their mouse that they have chosen to use displayed in this article. it is a poor excuse for an oem; as I bought one from Amazon.com and it does crazy line scrolls in the tens of text line jumps, to be corrected with two good pushes on the wheel to get back to the top of a page if you are use to keeping your finger on the wheel; I suggest dont. Its horizontal movement is choppy when expanding with the space bar or back spacing and accuracy isn't so great either. But, the mouse is beautiful with a rubber wheel and the keyboard is from Compaq; and very comfortable for an oem. I hope for their sake that these will not be the beginning of the warranty years for HP.
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Ignorance is blissful for HP
Robert Hahn 7th Sep
Fortunately for HP, there is a universe of consumers out there who have no idea that HP is thissssssClose to jettisoning its PC business. The IT professionals are nowhere near as likely to buy something from a division that might be sold tomorrow to the guys who ran eMachines.
Yawn..... HP has ran its consumer brand to the very bottom, just like Dell before it. Sell value to consumers not just price.
Actually, I'm excited to see the new all-in-one units due to their form factor & their ability to thread right into most home life-style, media entertainment needs.

Re: dave95 comment> If you are of the opinion & inferring that HP goes after price than value, then perhaps you should explore some of the competitors products. I have had (and do have) most of the major competitor's products & can say with conviction that HP's build quality is as good as anyone manufacturing PC's & specifically laptops in the market today. If anything, they might be slightly higher priced in the same product class.
I tend to agree with Michael V re: HP quality. Over the years I have gravitated to them for home use to the point where I have HP almost exclusively including 1 all-in-one, 1 home server, and 1 laptop. The all-in-one replaced an HP mini-desktop. None have had any problems and all perform quite well for their intended purposes. They have proven more reliable even then my home builds (1 desktop for gaming and 1 test box for playing with) though it irks me to admit that
@eabyrd > the only thing I would like to add, since I too and my family as well have purchased primarily from HP, is their Elite branded computers have always been great performing and recoverable computers. But, I now build my own systems taking advantage of costing and quality with the addition of an additional hard drive in all my systems to archive a complete recovery backup image of my operating system and files. Note: I do think that there is very little room for profit in the PC business today and HP has got no wiggle room to escape consumer demand for value and performance ; less their mouse that they have chosen to use displayed in this article. it is a poor excuse for an oem; as I bought one from Amazon.com and it does crazy line scrolls in the tens of text line jumps, to be corrected with two good pushes on the wheel to get back to the top of a page if you are use to keeping your finger on the wheel; I suggest dont. Its horizontal movement is choppy when expanding with the space bar or back spacing and accuracy isn't so great either. But, the mouse is beautiful with a rubber wheel and the keyboard is from Compaq; and very comfortable for an oem. I hope for their sake that these will not be the beginning of the warranty years for HP.
The only advantage w/all-in-ones is saving space. They are harder & more costly to service and up-grade,& more fragile than a desktop, and not portable. Since Windows up-grades often require hardware improvements, I see little over-all long-term benefit in them. HP stuff has always served me well, but I stick w/desktop/workstation and standard laptop form factors.

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