HP TouchSmart 310

HP TouchSmart 310

The HP TouchSmart 310 ($1160, as of November 11, 2010) is a multitouch-capable jack-of-all trades designed to do a little bit of everything. How well it succeeds depends on your needs, but this 20-inch all-in-one is equally adept at streaming movies and slinging spreadsheets. The TouchSmart 310 earned a 94 in our WorldBench 6 suite of tests, outperforming competing all-in-ones such as the Gateway ZX4800-06 and the MSI Wind Top AE2010 (which earned scores of 84 and 60, respectively). That said, it fell short of the 104 posted by HP's own All-In-One 200. Our review unit came equipped with a 2.5GHz Athlon X4 615e CPU, 6GB of DDR3 RAM, and ATI Radeon HD 4270 graphics. The TouchSmart 310 handles television and movies with aplomb, but gamers shouldn't expect to play anything more demanding than simple Flash games: The TouchSmart 310 chugged through our Unreal Tournament 3 benchmark tests (at its maximum 1024 by 768 resolution) at an unplayable average frame rate of 20 frames per second. (The All-In-One 200, the Gateway ZX4800-06, and other models in this category similarly failed to sustain playable frame rates.)