Buy and hold
ALL-IN-ONE PC | £1,099 from Currys www.snipca.com/48906
Claiming this all-in-one 23.8in desktop PC is ‘portable’ (as HP does, hence the ‘Move’ in its title) is probably pushing it – you wouldn’t want to lug it on to a train and carry it into work. However, with a handle on the back (pictured below) that lets you lift it up like a briefcase, and a weight of 4.1kg, it’s fairly easy to pick up and transport around the house.
And to be fair, HP has put a lot of thought into how this should work. It has a built-in battery, which means you don’t need to worry about plugging it in if you temporarily want to work in a different room. The two feet that support the screen can be rotated 90 degrees so they don’t jut out and get caught on a door frame while transporting. It also has a kangaroo-style pouch at the rear to house the combination keyboard/touchpad.
There are downsides to these design decisions. Those feet don’t let you tilt the screen back more than about five degrees, and you can’t adjust the height as you can with a regular monitor. However, sitting at a desk in front of this PC is arguably still more comfortable than hunching in front of a laptop – mostly because this has a separate keyboard. That said, the supplied keyboard isn’t the best wireless model we’ve used – with no option to tilt it to a different angle. The built-in touchpad is useful in an emergency but you’ll want to add a Bluetooth mouse.
We have no complaints about the screen. A peak brightness level of 314cd/m2 is plenty for inside use, while its colour accuracy was better than we expected, covering 96 per cent of the sRGB standard and 70 per cent of DCI-P3. Its 2560x1440-pixel resolution is generous for a screen of this size and is razor sharp as a result.
HP has also given careful consideration to the webcam. This records videos at 1440p rather than the typical 1080p, and both detail and colour accuracy are well above average. Our only criticism is of the microphone, which made us sound like we were calling from the bottom of a well. We were, howe
