HP’s TouchSmart IQ506 gets reviewed, dissected

October 3rd, 2008 by

Filed under: Desktops

Who woulda thunk it? All-in-ones are officially back in. Yeah, some would argue that they never really left, but with Sony’s latest family of monitor-bound PCs and HP’s freshened TouchSmart line upping the ante, we’d say the war is back on. The high(er)-end TouchSmart IQ506 was recently taken for a ride over at DesktopReview, and it didn’t take long for them to realize that HP was aiming for something very different with this machine. Rather than catering to the gaming or barebones crowd, this one emphasizes interaction and entertainment, and apparently, it did so in fantastic fashion. Additionally, those folks couldn’t resist cracking the casing open and giving us a look inside, so if you’ve got a thing for untouched PCB and silicon, you know where to look.

[Thanks, Janet]

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HP slips into thin with TouchSmart 2 all-in-ones

June 10th, 2008 by

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A year and a half ago, Bill Gates himself announced the TouchSmart PC chunk. This time, a simple press release will have to do the job as HP announces the $1,299 TouchSmart IQ504 (PC) and $1,499 TouchSmart IQ506 (PC with TV tuner). Arguably, the thinner, touchier, bigger, 22-inch all-in-ones deserve better. Inside the 2.6-inch thick chassis you’ll find a 500GB disk, 256MB of NVIDIA GeForce 9300 M HS HD graphics, 802.11n WiFi, and 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo T5850 processor thumping through the cycles. Launching in 17 countries next month including the UK, Japan, and the US. Another shot after the break.

Update: Video courtesy of CrunchGear posted after the break [Warning: obnoxiously loud soundtrack]

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