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hi I'm rich brown frisina and I'm here with the Sony Vaio tap 20 all-in-one desktop so this system might be the most unique in the entire slate of Windows 8 launch PCs what's interesting about it is that while it's a 20-inch on one that has a fairly modest set of components it actually also has a battery what that means is that you can take this system and move it around anywhere in your house and it really kind of straddles the line between desktop and tablet for its core specs it's a 20 inch display with a 1600 by 900 resolution it comes with a core i5 low voltage CPU as well as 4 gigs of RAM and a 750 gigabyte hard drive it has onboard Intel graphics so it's not really much of a gaming desktop and it actually only has a fairly limited set of ports you get a couple USB threes some audio jacks an SD card slot as well as standard Ethernet and power that's about it sorry home entertainment hub fans it does not have an HDMI input which is kind of a drag we also found in our testing that the system will last for about three and a half hours on battery that's certainly long enough to watch most movies so with those specs and for $9.99 this might seem like an overpriced desktop but the battery really gives it some unique flexibility you pick it up pretty easily close up the stand and take it pretty much wherever you can lay it down flat on a surface or you can take it and move it into say a bedroom a den or somewhere sort of out of the way to use it as a full screen computer for watching movies or browsing the web whatever you want to do one so for movie watching it has no optical drive so you're stuck with either an external optical if you want to kind of clutter it up or whatever you can get from the web or it's on your hard drive and as I said with gaming you can play newer titles with lower image quality settings but I wouldn't expect to play everything for general day-to-day computing though you can do pretty much anything you want in the system as long as you steer clear of higher-end multimedia editing it also has some unique networking capabilities that it has Wi-Fi Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC support so system definitely is not for everybody I can certainly see an argument that a laptop or a tablet can do pretty much anything this thing can for lower price and it's easier to move around still the fact that this brings a nice large display and a battery powered PC makes it kind of compelling for a certain niche so our merch Brown this is the sony vaio tap 20