- A few years ago,
we took a look at the worst, new PC you could get,
an HP All-in-One that was slow, ugly, and terrible.
Fast forward to 2021, and they upgraded it
with a flippy webcam, and fixed none of the other issues,
but I'm happy to say that our hopes
and prayers have finally been answered,
because....
(upbeat quirky music)
There's an all-new model.
Does it fix things?
I sure hope so!
Now, when I first started working on this video,
this was 500 bucks, a very reasonable upgrade.
Then I went to Best Buy, and actually purchased it,
it was $600, which makes it little bit more sus,
but let's take a look to see.
It's 2023, it's finally the year
that our terrible PC dreams have been replaced
with nightmares, because I'm tired of buying these things.
I mean, sorry, if it's finally gotten better!
Yaayy!
So the thing is,
I understand why people buy All-in-Ones, right?
If you're buying a PC,
you generally have a couple of options.
You can get yourself a desktop,
which is going to always give you more power for the money.
The problem though is
that not everyone wants to have a big tower,
even a small tower, that they need to hide
underneath their desk, or whatever the case is.
An All-in-One, even with this,
even though, like, the spec is terrible,
it's a nice-looking system.
You could easily put this somewhere.
I mean, I've seen these in, like, restaurants, and stuff
to run DoorDash, or whatever.
Like, the idea is solid,
but I'm hopeful that HP have heard my prayers,
and have...
(euphoric music)
Look, black now.
Oh.
First off, we have our accessories,
which I'm sure are going to be wonderful.
Oh, are you?
It's not accessory, it's power cable.
I'm not gonna say this is strike one,
this is strike, like, 0.5.
Why do desktops need laptop power supplies?
I just, put your,
could you just not just, like, do that?
To give HP some credit,
'cause I feel like I'm being a little mean today,
this foam was incredibly nice.
I can do it.
(quirky jazz music)
I can take a nap like this.
We do have what looks to be our keyboard, and mouse.
I guess this is technically one of the advantages
of buying a system like this is
that you do get everything you need.
You've obviously got the display,
you've got your mouse, and keyboard,
so it is quite literally plug and play.
It's wired. (Austin chuckles)
- It definitely needs, like,
an updated version of that keyboard,
because they have made that keyboard
for the past 30 years, and haven't changed a thing on it.
- No, no, no, it's got the newer Windows.
See, it's the square Windows key,
and not, like, you know, the,
remember when the Windows logo went from being this
to being like this,
and everyone was like, "Whoa, graphic design"?
It's really the riveting content
you've come to subscribe to the channel for, I know.
It's still really light.
It is still really, really light.
So this, my friends, is the answer to our prayers.
- [Matt] Are you really praying for this thing?
(Austin chuckles)
- I'm praying to not have to look at it anymore.
(Austin chuckles)
- You say that, yet you know next year
when this comes out again, we're first in line, baby!
- I've already pre-ordered the 2024 model.
- [Josh] Oh, God.
- So... - Ahh.
- It looks, what the hell happened to the front?
- Yeah. - Oh.
- I think it'll come out, right?
(upbeat rock music)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine, okay.
Mild panic attack that our screen was massively scratched.
There is a USB port, and an AUX jack on the side.
That was not there before. - Oh.
- So we're getting pretty,
oh, they took one off the back.
Oh.
- So they just moved it? - They just moved it.
I guess that's an upgrade!
All right, let's put these side by side.
Let's see what we got.
So they didn't really change anything.
(Austin chuckles)
It still has four USB ports,
except they just moved one of the USBs to the side.
They removed the headphone jack, and moved it to the side,
but it's got a gigabit ethernet, and HDMI.
Does it still have the poppy webcam thing?
(upbeat hip-hop music)
There we, oh.
(webcam clicks)
- [Matt] That sounds incredibly cheap.
- The biggest difference on the outside, besides the color,
is the fact that this is now 23.8 inches as opposed to 21.5.
It's a whole 2.3 inches larger.
- [Josh] That can be the difference, man.
- Could be quite literally a tripling of,
I mean, a significant difference in size.
(Austin clears throat)
- [Matt] I'm enjoying this Best Buy listing,
because it says, "Total number of USB ports, four.
Total number of USB 2.0 ports, two.
Total number of USB 3.0 ports, three."
- That's just not true. - Correct.
- Two USB 2.0, one USB 3.0, and then a second USB 3.0.
- [Josh] These thoughts,
and prayers are going really well so far,
Austin. - Well, I came into this
with a lot of enthusiasm,
because look, I've done videos on these before,
and the problem with this,
and its earlier version was the horrible specs.
This thing will take 10 seconds to load youtube.com.
This should be a lot faster.
It's got Ryzen!
It's got Radeon graphics, do you see?
It's got their brand, it's just Radeon.
Don't worry, don't ask questions
about what kind of Radeon.
It's a Radeon, and that's all you need.
A few months ago I tried Huel, and was pleasantly surprised.
So when they reached out to sponsor a video,
it was an absolute no-brainer.
Look, sometimes you're on the go,
and you need to get something to eat.
However, the options are usually not going to be healthy,
and certainly not going to be cheap,
which is where Huel Black Edition comes in.
Not only is this quick to make, but importantly,
it is plant-based, and nutritionally complete.
Using Huel's convenient shaker,
all it takes is some water, and a few seconds of shaking.
So there are a number of different flavors,
including unflavored, which is not a flavor.
This is the banana, which...
(Austin sniffs bag)
It's, like, subtle banana,
but it's, like,
I whisper the word banana
carefully in your ear. - Banana.
- At an unfortunately regular basis, I skip meals,
because I'm busy, and I just don't get around to it,
or what's even worse,
I'll eat something which is truly terrible for me.
But this is much easier.
(bright upbeat music)
Mm!
You know what?
That's very banana-y, but in a really good way.
If you'd like to experience the nutritionally complete life,
definitely be sure to go check out Huel
at the link in the description,
and huge thank you to Huel for sponsoring this video.
This has a Ryzen 3 3250U.
Now, that's a few generations behind,
but Ryzen is better than Celeron.
I can tell you without any shadow of a doubt.
- I wasn't familiar
with the Ryzen 3 3250U. - It's a good processor,
don't worry about it.
It's better.
- It is a also dual core!
I didn't even know they made dual core Ryzen!
(upbeat quirky music)
- They do.
- It says here that U - It's hyper threading.
- in the 3250U stands for unusable.
(Austin chuckles)
- Yes, it still might be dual core,
but two Ryzen cores are so much better than what's in that.
Like, I guarantee you this thing will run rings around it.
- I'm reading- - Ooh!
- All good. - That's bright.
Doesn't actually have good viewing angles,
but when you're looking at it straight on,
that actually is pretty bright.
- [Computer Assistant] Turn on narrator
by pressing Windows + Control.
- Not bad speakers.
Now I'm gonna plug this in via ethernet.
I'm gonna give it the best possible shot
of not being terrible.
I will say though, immediately just
in the Windows set up, this is so much faster.
You know what's funny?
I actually kind of think that this looks cheaper.
I actually think the white looks clean,
and, like, kind of modern.
The black already kind of looks a little,
(plastic scratches)
like, it's just the cheapy, cheapy plastic.
I don't like that our wheel is dropping frames.
It's usually not a good sign.
- Okay. - Look, it's Windows set up,
okay?
Let's not get too impatient.
(upbeat hip-hop music)
It'll be done any minute now.
Oh!
"Do you wanna use your face to sign in?"
Okay!
Let's do it, let's do it.
Wow! Look at the quality of that webcam.
Wow!
That's so many qualities.
I'm just gonna get close.
Oh, oh. - Oh.
It didn't ask you, like, to turn your head,
or any, that was...
(Austin chuckles)
- It didn't even bother, it was just like,
(Josh laughs)
"We good, just go."
So after giving our system a little while
to do some updates, download some games,
let's take a closer look.
The first test is Cinebench.
Now, I'm not gonna get
into a bunch of benchmarks, or anything like that.
The most important thing is just to have a little bit
of a frame of reference
for how performant this is compared to this.
Again, keep in mind this is about $400.
This one was $500.
I bought it for $600, now it's on sale for like $530,
so $500, $600, okay?
So just keep that in mind.
First thing with Cinebench, we have a score
of 679 for single core, 1793 for multi-core.
I'll just mention I've run this twice on this system.
It took 45 minutes to run the first time,
and it is, well, this did two loops,
and this is still not done with the first one.
But what's interesting about this is
that this is still only a dual-core Ryzen processor.
One of my biggest questions here,
and we're gonna play some games, and do some silly stuff,
but one of my biggest questions with this is,
does the extra performance make it powerful enough
to be used for regular use,
or is it just still going to be too slow?
Because being three times faster
than the world's crappiest PC is not exactly something
to be all that proud of
when my smartphone is probably more powerful
than either of these. (Austin chuckles)
- [Matt] Combined.
- Yeah, it's not good, it's not good.
I would love to show you some crispy HD gaming capture
from this device,
however, I'm gonna leave every little, tiny bit
of computing performance for playing the game,
and not trying to record it,
so just imagine it looking good.
You just have to stare at the screen.
So I'm gonna start out with "CS:GO",
a game which is very, very easy to run.
I think we can get 30 FPS.
I don't think that's unreasonable.
Uh-oh.
I see nine FPS right now.
(bright bouncy music)
- Cool!
- Oh, what the, why am I at 18 FPS?
I'm in medium settings!
I can't play in medium?
- [Matt] Your teammates really like you right now.
- I'm not in the game yet, it's fine.
I think I changed it fast enough, right?
- No. - Did I just crash it?
- [Matt] You just crashed it.
- I was just trying to say nice things!
I was trying to...
(Matt laughs)
- How is it? - What?
- HP, stop doing this to me!
Look, I understand that this is not a gaming computer.
I get that.
People are not buying this to be a gaming PC,
but like, I'm not asking a lot.
Do you remember when Jay and I did that video
where we got, it was like an old, single-core system,
and we got "CS:GO" running?
It was, like, from, like, 2006, or something.
Like, this is a very easy game to play.
(screen swoops)
Oh, my God, is it working?
I will be shocked if "CS:GO" doesn't run,
and "Forza" does.
- [Matt] We've been waiting here
for about 19 minutes, and we are at 1%!
Austin?
- Is it finally done?
- [Matt] It's ready!
It's ready!
- This is... (Austin chuckles)
I, what? (Austin chuckles)
- [Matt] This is giving me '90s flashbacks.
- Okay, okay, we're gonna stop, we're gonna stop.
I should have done "Minesweeper".
I think it would be able to load "Minesweeper",
and "Solitaire".
I think that's about the extent
of the gaming I can pull off on this thing.
I'm gonna turn settings down to the basic,
simple, absolute lowest.
(bright cheerful music)
Oh! 27 FPS!
27 FPS!
So this looks like a PS2 game now.
Who should buy this (censored), man?
- [Matt] You!
You've bought not one, not two,
but somewhere around here is a third one
that you have bought.
- So one of the big things I wanna learn here,
how is this to actually use?
This is unusably slow,
but with a Ryzen 3, I bet you can, like,
watch 4K YouTube, open up a couple tabs at once.
- [Matt] But this is a 1080 screen.
Why would you do that?
- Hey Matt, have you ever heard of bitrate?
- No. - More is better.
- Oh. - Okay. Let's see
if 1080p wants to play back.
Hello, my friends, and welcome to This Is.
CES, no problem.
Let's try to crank it up to 4K.
Some wackiness.
No problem.
This gets a huge thumbs up on that front,
and because it does have HDMI,
you could theoretically plug this into an external monitor
if you wanted to do a dual-screen setup.
Now for context on how much faster this is
for regular use, 'cause again,
I don't want this to be, like, a video
where I'm just, like, clowning on this thing
for being too slow to play games, or something.
We've tried the game on this.
You can check out that video.
It struggled to play, like, "Crysis" from 2007.
So I'm gonna load up the channel
on both these systems side by side,
and you can see how much faster, or not, it is, okay?
Ready?
Three, two, one.
(keyboard taps)
Done-ish.
We're back at it again.
Okay?
And?
A PS5 in an actual car on a,
done!
That's a big difference, right?
And I think that's actually probably one
of the best demos of the difference
between these two systems is
that this actually is usably usable.
Like, it's not horrifically slow.
Now, I will say though, if we ignore this
for a moment, because we all know
this is literally the worst new PC you can buy.
Like, let's just close this up.
We don't have to look at this anymore.
I'm still struggling a little bit with who this is for.
If you bought a desktop, and you paired it with a display,
you're gonna get more performance.
If you buy a laptop, and pair it with a display,
you're gonna get more performance.
If this was 400 bucks, I'd be like,
"I kind of get it."
At $600, or even $500, or $530,
it's not a good value,
but I would say it is at least usable.
At least it is, like, the bare minimum to consider buying,
like, an actual Windows PC.
(broadcast bleeps)
HP, if you made it to this point in the video,
thank you very much.
Just come in close.
Can you- - How close?
- Can you just literally make the,
okay, that's a little too close.
- Uh-oh. - Can you literally,
just make this PC,
and just gimme like, oh, I don't know,
a slightly better chip?
Give me like a quad core Ryzen.
That's it!
This thing is totally fine
other than the abysmally slow chip.
I mean, I think you should make the stand black
to match the system, but that's fine!
That's fine, right?
That's all this needs is a little bit more performance,
because this is still not enough.
It's... (Austin sighs)
Oh, also USB-C.
That'd be great.
Can I, like, go make a video on, like, a good PC again?
Like, I miss, is there, like,
a 4090 around here, or something?
(mischievous music)