HP Omni 200 Quad

HP Omni 200 Quad

If you're interested in speed--and speed alone--the 21.5-inch HP Omni 200 Quad may be the right pick for you in the budget all-in-one PC category. You'll be cruising so quickly in programs and in Windows that you might not even notice the machine's shortcomings. This $960 (as of April 26, 2011) all-in-one desktop may be fast, but it's certainly not flawless. We'll start with the good news. Packing an Intel Core i5-760 processor that chugs along at 2.8GHz, the Omni 200 Quad zipped to the top of the chart. As for the rest of the meat and potatoes, 6GB of DDR3-677 memory and a 1TB hard drive accompany the CPU. The Omni 200 Quad blazed through our WorldBench 6 suite of tests to achieve a jaw-dropping score of 132--the highest mark the all-in-one class has seen, period. Another outlier for the category: decent gaming performance. On our Unreal Tournament 3 benchmark test, the Omni 200 Quad generated 47.9 frames per second (at 1680-by-1050-pixel resolution and highest settings). Since the PC's native resolution is 1920 by 1080 pixels, it fell out of the running for our higher, 1920-by-1200-pixel tests. Even so, its results are still an impressive showing for a category that generally fails to deliver in games.