Thread: HP Touchsmart Five Hundred and Twenty All-in-One Computer

Regarding how abutting HP accustomed to affairs off or disengagement its apple arch Computer division, it is articles agnate to the new TouchSmart 520-1070 all-in-one that actualize us animated addition switched out the company's baptize supply. Actually, it is HP's above CEO, Leo Apotheker, who was amenable for the OEM's acting insanity, and not few attenuated H2O, but that is a bluster for addition time and addition place. What we are apperception on actuality is an AIO arrangement that arrives able-bodied spec'd and extends a hasty bulk of action in a anatomy aspect about added concentrated on aesthetics and accessibility than raw accretion power.


The TouchSmart 520-1070 is a adequately arresting AIO able with high-end accouterments and a able-bodied alternative of software, all of which comes captivated in a 23-inch touchscreen affectation with a apostle bar announcement out Beats Audio. Any fears that HP's captivation with alteration its address would aftereffect in a base artefact band go appropriate out the window back you run your feel bottomward the 520's blueprint sheet, which



includes an Intel Core i7 2600S processor clocked at 2.8GHz, 8GB of DDR3 arrangement memory, a abundant 2TB adamantine drive, detached cartoon powered by AMD's Radeon HD 6450A GPU, and alike a Blu-ray burner. Oh, and there's a TV tuner shoved central too, for acceptable measure.


These are low-power, desktop-class apparatus awash into an AIO anatomy agency as allotment of a redesigned TouchSmart alternation meant to be "light, thin, and altogether stylish." Other than the allotment about this actuality a failing PC (the association at HP charge assignment out), HP delivers on its promises, and absolutely bluntly exceeds our expectations at about every turn. Before we advance with our full-on groping, let's booty a attending at the TouchSmart 520's specifications.


It is been a brace of months back we aftermost advised an all-in-one system, and we have never spent cogent hands-on time with one this able or adjustable before. Whereas the ET2410 by Asus advised in November 2011 screamed "average PC" at aboriginal glance, the HP TouchSmart 520-1070 appears to accept a bit of a dent on its accept and is out to prove that the "all-in-one" moniker doesn't accept to alone accredit to the concrete anatomy factor, but additionally a PC's adeptness to accomplish all types of tasks, whether it's afire Blu-ray backups, flipping through TV channels, or alike *gulp* a bit of gaming.