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HP's new living room PC looks sharp, but is built for sound

2016-08-31
when we call something a livingroom pc we generally mean it's smaller than a standard tower desktop somehow designed to fit into a typical living room or entertainment center and it has some special features that make it especially useful for multimedia tasks the new HP pavilion wave is a compact triangular pc covered in a grey woven fabric it reminds me of a bookshelf speaker just modern enough to fit in anywhere and its design conveys its abilities while this is a standard Windows 10 desktop in many ways it's almost more of a speaker than a computer like the Amazon echo which it vaguely resembles the central mass is largely taken up with a single top firing speaker designed for 360 degrees sound a parabolic reflector at the very top pushes the sound out and Walt won't replace a big pair of powered bookshelf speakers or your home entertainment surround sound system it's pretty hefty sounding for a small form factor desktop especially as most desktops don't even have built-in speakers at all inside you'll find current gen Intel Core I series processors up to 2 terabytes of storage and even optional AMD graphics for video editing and maybe a little light gaming + HP says it'll drive to 4k monitors at once
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