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hi I'm rich Bradford Cena and I'm here today with the HP Envy 23 Windows 8 all-in-one this is a mainstream touchscreen on one from HP and it starts at about 1100 bucks the HP has actually submitted a very high-end review unit it comes in to about $2,000 for this particular configuration this model has a core i7 CPU 16 gigs of ram a 2 terabyte hard drive as well as an entry-level nvidia graphics chip now unfortunately for HP there's nothing here that really distinguishes this system from other on one pcs it to come out with Windows 8 thanks to the core i7 chip it's about as fast as other pcs in that $2,000 price range but the 16 gigs of ram doesn't really do much for mainstream workloads if you're a professional you might benefit from that much memory but for the day-to-day mainstream users that are gonna buy a system like this you probably better off with a higher-end graphics card now on other systems in that price range so we've seen 27 inch screens very high resolution displays features like thunderbolt Wi-Fi NFC even gesture control now not all those are useful but at least there's something and you can't add those to the system via HP's configurator instead it's just a generic on one that we've seen dozens of times before just happens to have a higher-end set of core features now does get most of the basic notes right this is a 19 by 10 resolution touchscreen and it's responsive enough works pretty well you can see instead of air hockey here you can see the touch screen isn't perfect though and there's some drag so it's not as good as a typical high-end smartphone or tablet so for its other features there's a slot-loading blu-ray drive that's nice to have there's also an HDMI input which is always useful let's you turn the system into a home entertainment hub if you connect a game console or a cable box and on the back of the sides you can see you have basic set of ports there's USB 3 SD cards various audio inputs there's also a TV tuner which is nice to have we'd probably rather see some higher imports particularly in this price range for example with 16 gigs of ram you're certainly targeting higher-end performance-oriented users and in that case a thunderbolt port would probably make some sense so in its lower end configurations this is a fine if unremarkable mainstream all-in-one if this high-end price though HP doesn't really deliver enough to set the system apart from the other competitors in this price range sorry much Brown this is the HP Envy 23 you