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HP delivers an elegant feature-rich desktop which performs pretty respectively for the price in its 2017 update to the envy curved all-in-one 34 behind the front mesh are for Bang & Olufsen certified speakers they sound really good much better than on the 27-inch model because the base is bigger there's room for two passive radiators which results in improved bass and enough of a frequency range that you can actually hear the differences among the presets there's also a cool touch audio control on the right side of the base and a qi wireless charging pad on the left side for devices that support it the display delivers wide quad HD resolution in a 21 - 9 aspect ratio it's got a slightly tighter radius than its predecessor and it's non reflective which is really nice and the width makes it great for working with side by side windows because it's stuck between HD and Ultra HD resolution though it's not really optimized for full screen video it handles fullscreen games pretty well though especially when you expand the field of view in the game settings I like HP's design choices here all the guts are in the base with an SD card slot USB C charging port and headphone jack easily accessible on the side plus there are four USB and HDMI in and out and an Ethernet connection on the back one of the niftier design choices is the retractable webcam it not only preserves the thin bezel aesthetic of the monitor it can rest assured that no one's watching you