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hi I'm rich Brown for CNET today we're going to take a look at the Asus 8020 300 inti so this is a 23 inch Windows 8 all-in-one from Asus it costs about $12.99 so this is a touchscreen all-in-one like most current Windows 8 PCs but what's probably the most unique about this PC is that it has pretty much every current feature we can think of to add to a system like this so as far as the basics it's a perfectly serviceable Windows 8 PC the touch screen works fine it's nice and responsive it's a 19 by 10 screen so it's not the highest resolution we've seen but it certainly gets the job done the wireless mouse the keyboard work easily enough as well there's an external subwoofer here that plugs into the back it doesn't put out the best audio quality particularly at higher volumes but it adds a nice little boost if you will keep the volume low enough there's an NVIDIA GeForce GT 6 30 M graphics chip inside so it's not the fastest for gaming but it'll certainly play most titles figure if you keep image quality down for memory and storage you get 8 gigs of RAM and a terabyte hard drive at full speed 7200 rpm that's kind of what we expect and in general the system has some nice flexibility if it's not the most attractive new PC out there the screen tilts down to the point where you can lay it flat if you want to get into that sort of tabletop touch experience well you notice when we tilt it back and forth it sort of lowers that display down at the same time now it's certainly much rather have the ability to lay it down flat than not at all but it would be nice to have a little bit more independent range of motion in terms of going front to back and up and down no it's probably most interesting about this PC though is that asus has included both thunderbolt ports as well as intel's wide i wireless display technology now those features are interesting that you don't really see them in a lot of current mainstream all in once in a PC like this it's targeted at mainstream consumers and not really professionals who might want to connect the fast data array or some other sort of higher-level peripheral that takes advantage of the thunderbolt port and for the wireless display technology yes I suppose it might be interesting to send a signal from this computer out to a TV with a wide receiver on it but why do I still far from perfect and from set of difficulties we had connecting it to an LG TV as well as in general the latency you get it's really not the best experience in addition to the core components that it has HDMI in HDMI out time 2 USB 3 ports as well as an eSATA put now all those various ports give you a ton of flexibility in terms of what you can connect to the system and it really makes it a pretty versatile all-in-one now you can find other all-in-ones in this price range maybe look a little better than one from Visio comes to mind but in terms of pure features for the dollar the ASIS right now is one of the best we've seen in this price Sark's brown this is the asus ET 2300 IM TI