HP TouchSmart 610: For Business or Pleasure
by Dustin Sklavos on November 2, 2011 2:50 PM ESTGaming Performance
Reflecting the slower nature of all-in-one graphics, I've elected not to run our "Ultra" testing suite on the HP TouchSmart 610 and odds are I won't for any future all-in-ones. The hardware is simply too slow, because as you'll see by these "High" settings, 1080p is just too much work for a midrange mobile-class graphics part.
Disappointment sets in. To produce a gaming workload that would be at least a little more reasonable, I'll be testing all-in-ones at the "Medium" preset we use for notebooks (except employing DirectX 11 in all cases). At medium settings things improve a little, as DiRT 2, Left 4 Dead 2, STALKER: Call of Pripyat, and StarCraft II all break the 30fps mark. Really the bare minimum for a 1080p screen is a GTX 460M/560M, which is based on the desktop GeForce GTS 450 (a stand-in for which you can see in the slower Quadro 2000), or on the AMD side we'd want the HD 6850M or above.
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ABR - Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - link
That's all I have to say.GotThumbs - Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - link
Whats the point of including an i7 and 8 gigs of ram when your running the OS off a drive with turtle speed? At least include a decent WD Black/Blue drive or better yet.....Run the OS off a separate SSD and use the Turtle drive for media storage.I still prefer building/upgrading my own systems, but this would be a decent unit for the kitchen. I'd be even more interested if they offered this with an AMD APU at a much lower cost. I just don't see the value in offering this product at such a high price.
Good review though.
shin0bi272 - Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - link
While I was working on an iMac in 1999 I noticed that it didnt have a floppy drive. forward thinking sure but all the boot disks that we had for that version of the mac os were on floppy and cd burners were really expensive. So while it was forward thinking it also screwed its customers and the techs trying to repair one hit by lightning.Roland00Address - Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - link
When you use a TN panel with a touchscreen, and you actually touch the panel the image distorts where you touch it.IPS does not have this limitation, this is why many touchscreen phones use IPS panels over the cheaper TN, furthermore IPS have better viewing angles.
PLS is a variant of IPS that Samsung has come out with.
Death666Angel - Thursday, November 3, 2011 - link
I don't really understand you. Any touch screen of course needs a layer of glass or something else that is between the panel/pixels and the finger, because if you touch any open LCD, the image distorts.shashank7040 - Thursday, November 3, 2011 - link
Great.....Asus Eee Pad is the first Android tablet with slide out QWERTY.....................http://goo.gl/B4rJU
Samus - Thursday, November 3, 2011 - link
Really HP? REALLY!?Why didn't you just put a 7200RPM 2.5" in there if you were concerned about heat/power!? This is just stupid. Why bother pairing the fastest CPU on the market up with the slowest hard drive?
Snotling - Thursday, November 3, 2011 - link
they wanted to save a dollar on each system sold.Really, the difference in heat and power draw nowadays is close to non-existent and of course, at least on 2.5 HD... which I hope is what they used right?
What... They didn't??? those stinking bastards!
Snotling - Thursday, November 3, 2011 - link
"The HDMI input is great,"not so great if you consider that you have two of them (or so it seems) and no VGA, HDMI or otherwise method of plugging in a second display, projector or whatever...
please... laptops half this size have had it for decades.