About All In One Pc

My major concern with all-in-one anything is the issues encountered if a sub system fails - the whole system must be taken out of use to repair one part.

Dependent on the actual all-in-one PC it may be possible to replace components with easily sourced parts or not - we all have experience with all-in-one systems and their upgrade/repair/cost issues - Laptops are a common form of all-in-one and these are considerably more difficult and expensive to maintain, but the advantages outweigh the issues.

I personally do not see any real advantage to a desktop system in the all-in-one design

SIW2 said:

What is "all in one pc" ?

Never heard of that.

These are 'All In Ones'

All-in-One PCs Desktop & all-in-one PCs | HP® Official Store

To the OP, you might be able to upgrade things like the HDD, CPU and RAM but you may be stuck with upgrading the graphics due to the space limitation.

But i would just opt for a desktop but get a mini system like a barbones system.

Lucky

SIW2 said:

Yes, thought it might one of those. Strange terminology - laptops and notebooks are also all in one of course.

What is the point of it?

There must be a huge price and performance penalty compared to buying a desktop.

Fashion item.

Another victory of "form over function"

The only minor advantage is that there are fewer cables to worry about

Oh, really. Learn something new everyday.

I always assumed that All-in-one PCs were initially a slimed down version of desktop with desktop componenets, never realised they use Lappy componenets.

Mind they probably run just as warm i bet.

Lucky