HP Reveals New Gaming Rig and its First 27-Inch AIO PC
HP has introduced a 27-inch All-in-One PC along with a new gaming rig featuring AMD's 8-core FX-8100 CPU.
On Wednesday HP unveiled its very first 27-inch All-in-One (AIO) PC, the HP Omni 27. Slated for a January 8 release with a starting price of $1,199.99, it won't come packed with touch-based input support. Instead, it will feature a non-touch version of its Magic Canvas software, up to 2 TB of HDD space, Beats Audio, HDMI input and options like a TV tuner or a Blu-ray disc drive.
According to HP, the AIO will sport a 27-inch 1080p LED-backlit display constructed with edge-to-edge glass. The base $1200 model will reportedly provide a 2.5 GHz Sandy Bridge Core i5-2400S processor, integrated graphics, 6 GB of RAM and two USB 3.0 ports.
"The HP Omni 27 All-in-One PC is crafted for consumers who demand meticulous design, enhanced performance and an expanded viewing experience," the company said on Wednesday. "Its elegant flat-panel display features edge-to-edge glass and tilts up to 25 degrees, allowing users to adjust the 27-inch-diagonal high-definition screen to their comfort level."
In addition to the HP Omni 27, the company also announced the HP Pavilion HPE h9 Phoenix PC, what the company calls "the most powerful HP Pavilion PC to date" which will offer "a cutting-edge design and expandability for users focused on content creation and immersive gaming." To put it simply, the rig is geared for gamers and HP is even throwing in a copy of the dynamic MMORPG Rift for free as proof.
Surprisingly, the HP Pavillion HPE h9 Phoenix will start at $1,149.99 when it goes retail on January 8. Currently the product page isn't up and running, but HP promises an armor-plated design, "attention-grabbing" lighting, four DIMMs accommodating up to 16 GB of DDR3 memory, three internal hard drive bays, high-end discrete graphics cards using up to 250W, an optional liquid cooling system, and a valet tray equipped with USB ports.
Additional reports indicate that the base model will feature an 8-core AMD FX-8100 processor, 8 GB of RAM, a 160 GB SSD, and a Radeon 7670 GPU with 1 GB of VRAM. For fans of Intel, there's also a version that uses an X79 motherboard packed with CPUs like the Core i7-3960X.
On Wednesday HP also announced the $319 23-inch Compaq L2311c notebook docking monitor, and the 18.5-inch HP LV1911 ($125) and 20-inch LV2011 ($135) LED-backlit LCD monitors. The L2311c is expected to ship in February along with the HP LV2011, followed by the cheaper HP LV1911 in March.

Use Intel or face death? Please. Get over the Bulldozer failure already...the processor still functions.
Use Intel or face death? Please. Get over the Bulldozer failure already...the processor still functions.
What? Have they never used an i7 before?
This seems like a decent offering from HP, though I
How can you call it "gaming rig" with integrated graphics?
Unless you only use it to play farmville you can call it a gaming rig.
That's the AIO PC, the HP Omni 27, which is not mentioned as the gaming option. The gaming pc, the phoenix, has an unspecified high-end discrete graphics card.
I'm interested that it may be the start of a promising trend that the base model on the phoenix pc comes with an SSD. It may still be only a niche desktop, but it should be the startof driving down prices if vendors start sticking SSDs in as the base default option. Or is this their way around the HDD shortage? Or have I just not been looking at pre-built systems in a while?
yes it still functions but in everyday application gets better use of the phenom line than the use of bulldozer.
I constantly say that bulldozer can work, but it is proper OS integration and it probably needs revision before could ever be used mainstream computer. Putting money into a computer right now, outside of server application or using it for anything else but where it shows clear dominance over the I7 in benchmarks is just stupid, when a phenom can cost as little as $100 for 3 GHz.
to their credit, outside of Battlefield 3, witcher 2, and a few other graphically demanding games, and AMD APU can almost always easily put out games of quality graphics. I say what you will about final fantasy 14 but when they demoed the APU on it it pushed impressive looking graphics for integrated.
The thing that integrated is good, and not even touching on Intel's abysmal integrated, but the options have come a long way since what you're thinking.
real adults use 1920x1200 and not a 1920x1080.
That said I would really love some cheaper 2560 x 1600 monitors. It doesn't even have to be 120 Hz or LED just under $2000 for anything decent, and probably even under $600, could I just can't justify spending the more than that on a monitor I'm only using for my computer
I'd rather have an ugly big box hidden somewhere full of empty slots, drive bays and dust bunnies :-)
The people that will buy the AIO, aren't the type of people that concern themselves with being able to upgrade it later....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmacAPUaEEA&feature=channel_video_title
Hey HP, is that joke?