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hi I'm rich brown first CNET and today we're gonna take a look at the new samsung series seven on one desktop this is Samsung's new Windows 8 PC this model comes in around 1099 so it's actually a pretty affordable 23 inch Windows 8 system it does have 10-point touch input here in the screen it's pretty responsive the screens nice and glossy so you don't really get that much resistance like we've seen in some other all-in-ones Samsung also paid some pretty good attention to the design in this system you can see it's got this nice chrome trim along the edge here and it's sort of a unique stand the screen tilts back about thirty degrees so it doesn't have that full reclining that you get in some other on once but it's still not bad if you want to just come up to it and use it like a kiosk style system now because it's 1099 the system isn't the most fully featured that we've seen it has a core i5 CPU that's laptop style so it means it's a little bit slower than you might get otherwise there's only six gigs of RAM usually we see about eight there's also a terabyte hard drive as well as Intel integrated graphics now all that is perfectly fine for browsing around using basic touch apps well it's playing some light duty games but if you want to get into media editing or other intensive programs you're not going to have much luck with this PC it also has some of the usual things we expect to see as far as ports there's USB 3 and SD card input HDMI in and out so that's useful for saying adding a second monitor to the system or plugging into a console or some other home video source and using this as a standalone display somewhat unique to this PC though is it's just your based input system now that doesn't mean it's successful only that it's sort of unique we've seen it in one other PC and all one from Acer so to help you get acclimated to the gesture input Samsung has included this handy stand here that has some of the basic gestures so put this stand next your system and all of a sudden looks like you're at a trade show or an electronics store so the problem with the gesture input is that it's a little bit awkward and it's not all that responsive so you put your hand in front of the screen and you get some feedback that it's recognized your input but it's slow to respond and some of the gestures are just awkward they want you to make a fist and then drag down to switch between the start screen and the traditional Windows desktop and that's something that I haven't been able to get work at all you so from one point of view the gesture input isn't really that successful it's not responsive it's a little bit awkward to use and in general it just doesn't feel quite right considering the price and the other features in the system though Samsung doesn't appear to be charging a big premium for the gesture input so you really don't lose a lot by having it here so in all this is a pretty decent looking relatively affordable Windows 8 all-in-one it has a nice big twenty three point six inch screen and it has all the features and performance that you more or less expect to find in a PC in this price range so for anybody looking for a basic mainstream on one I can certainly recommend the samsung series 7 I just wouldn't get too excited about the gesture controls sorry much Brown this is the samsung series 7 only