Not merely satisfied with their finger-friendly Touchsmart All-In-One line, HP is moving back into the non-touch AIO space with the Omni 27, a snappy, dual-core Windows machine.
Besides the massive 2560×1920 resolution screen, the Omni 27 has Beats audio, 4 gigs of RAM, up to 2 terabytes of storage, HDMI-in, and the option of a Blu-ray drive and TV tuner. Briefly playing with the desktop, I thought the screen was bright, rich in colour, and sharp. Windows was extremely responsive, even with HP’s Magic Canvas quasi-UI running on top. And over all the build quality was solid.
The Omni 27 will hit stores on January 8 at a starting price of $US1200, which isn’t all that bad considering the size of the display. Stay tuned for Aussie details. [HP]
Ash
Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 8:57 AMLooks good, display is awesome, but 4GB RAM is pretty tame in this day and age. Looking forward to seeing what the Aussie pricing is though. BluRay and TV Tuner should come as standard features these days. Does it have Bluetooth built in? More specs would have been good.
Miguel
Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 9:13 AMStarting from US$1200? So likely Aussie start price around $1600
Pmac
Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 9:45 AMThat’s optimisitic
light487
Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 1:51 PMJust imagine the amount of greasy (kids) fingers that are going to cover that beautiful screen with grime… ) hehe
As for the price in Australia, I’d estimate at least $1999.. $2499 with bluray.
illogical
Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 5:07 PMI agree with Ash. Looks great, now they just need to beef up the hardware. I’m willing to pay $2-3k for one of something like that, if it could play games.