HP PAVILION 24 ALL-IN ONE
If you buy a PC, you’ll need a screen to go with it. Voila!
$1,499 | www.hp.com.au
If you buy any one of the other systems in our roundup, you have to source a monitor too. That’s the beauty of an AIO. You can think of The HP Pavilion 24 All in One as a laptop with a 24in immovable screen.
The 23.8in FHD IPS screen features touch functionality and there’s no doubt it’s the main selling point of this PC. It has a HDMI input too so it can just as easily function as a screen for a gaming console or a set top box. Sounds handy for the kids room?
The Pavilion 24 AIO can’t match the desktop systems in terms of spec, but you wouldn’t expect it to at $1,499. It includes an AMD Ryzen 5 4600H processor with integrated graphics and 8GB of RAM. That CPU is a 6C/12T model so it actually has a good amount of multithreading performance compared to the Leader NUC. It falls behind in single threaded performance, but not by a lot and in the PC Mark tests, it draws close to the more powerful i5-12400 equipped Dell. Its main weakness is its 8GB of RAM, though HP has an option for 16GB, and it’s well worth spending the extra money for it.
As a home system, and one that comes with a monitor included, it presents a totally different value proposition to the other systems here. As a bedroom PC or a basic office productivity machine, it works well, the fact that it doubles up as a secondary monitor with a touch screen is a bonus. If you already have a monitor though, you’ll get better performance from a standalone desktop.
"Presents a totally different value proposition to the other systems"
The HP 24 isn’t the most powerful PC around, but its IPS touch screen adds a lot of extra value at this price