Woopnik's video: HP Pavilion All-In-One 24-k0080 - Review

This is the second video I made about the HP Pavilion 24-k0080. The first video shows the "Unboxing". The 23.8-inch touch screen provides wide viewing angles and good contrast. You can make out pixels if you stare at the edges of letters, as with any screen of this size and resolution, but details are generally sharp, and brightness is good. Colors aren't pop-off-the-screen vibrant, but they do look rich and well-saturated. A four-way button or joystick nubbin on the back of the display lets you adjust brightness and contrast, toggle between PC and HDMI input, and choose among color temperature presets (also available by right-clicking the desktop and choosing HP Display Control). The presets include modes for Vivid, Gaming, Movie, and Low Blue Light. HP 24 Pavilion All-in-One PC, 10th Gen Intel i7-10700T Processor, Intel UHD Graphics 630, 16 GB RAM, Dual Storage 512 GB SSD and 1TB HDD, Full HD IPS 24 inch Touchscreen, Windows 10 Home, Keyboard and Mouse (24-k0080, 2020). The Geekbench 5 score of this PC is 5887. The higher the number the better. My 7 year old Toshiba Qosmio X75-A has a Geekbench 5 score of 8570. That means my 7 year old Toshiba Qosmio has a much better performance compared to the HP Pavilion 24-k0080. The Geekbench 5 score for the HP is disappointing on so many levels. Visuals are not the best. The IPS touch screen offers full HD (1,920-by-1,080-pixel) instead of 1440p or 4K resolution (today a $1200 All-In-One PC should have a 4K display), and the processor's Intel UHD Graphics 630 (an older graphics system, 3 years old, which is disappointing) is more suited to casual games (say Solitaire) than demanding 3D titles. But the HP Pavilion is an attractive looking overall package, a svelte screen in what the company calls Snowflake White with thin bezels on top and sides and a fabric-covered speaker grille below the display. A small tag on the right of the grille boasts that the speakers are tuned by B&O, the consumer-electronics rather than audiophile label of Bang & Olufsen. In my opinion the B&O sound quality is not as good as the sound quality from my TAO Tronics sound bar which costs only $60. A plain rectangular base and slim stand support the display, which has tilt but no height adjustment. The stand doesn't swivel, but it's not difficult to move the computer around the desk. Videoconferencing and online chat are prime home PC applications these days, and the HP is ready with a 5-megapixel webcam with quad-array digital microphone. The camera pops up from the top edge when you want it and snaps down flush to block Peeping Toms when you don't. Like most all-in-ones, the Pavilion puts most of its ports, which is inconvenient, around back. The SD Card reader is in the back too which makes using the SD Card Slot VERY inconvenient. A headphone jack and one USB Type-A port are on the right edge of the display. (The power button is at bottom left.) Three more USB-A ports and one USB Type-C port are at the rear, along with an SD card slot, a Gigabit Ethernet jack, an HDMI-out port for connecting a second display, and HDMI-in for connecting a cable box or game console to the HP's screen. The retractable webcam is also way above average, producing 1440p stills and videos that are slightly soft-focus but clearly showing the flyaway strands of a bad hair day. Colors are accurate, and contrast is good. It's not an infrared camera, though, so the HP offers neither face recognition nor a fingerprint reader for Windows Hello logins.