HP 100B All-In-One: Energy-Saving All-in-One Desktop Stumbles on Speed

At a Glance

Expert's Rating

Pros

Entrancing and business-willing
Bright screen with good viewing angles

Our Verdict

The H.P. 100B has a nice, bright screen, only it fails to deliver on performance and features.

If you're looking for a cheap, in good order attractive all-in-one desktop that sips energy but is moderately sluggish, we have the computing machine for you. Although the business-concentrated HP 100B All-in-One comes preloaded with Windows 7 Professional, HP has unfortunately skimped on power, ports, and features.

Our review model, priced at $499 (as of April 5, 2020), carries a 1.6GHz AMD E-350 duple-core CPU and a measly 2GB of RAM; it runs a 32-number version of Windows 7 Professional. The model comes with everything you need unsuccessful of the corner–it is an all-in-one, later on all–including a connected mouse and keyboard.

Like most all-in-one PCs, the HP 100B is housed in a thick widescreen supervise propped up aside a sturdy kickstand. The HP 100B's chassis is black, with a shiny black bezel framing the 20-inch matte-finish LCD. The 1600-by-900-pixel screen is bright and easy to look at, with satisfactory horizontal and vertical viewing angles. The colors are sometimes a bit faded, simply nothing too glaring. And speaking of glare, thanks to the matte finish, the display has virtually no issue with bright faint.

Settled straight below the sort, the speakers offer acceptable but non excellent sound. They aren't very loud, even when turned up to their loudest, and audio frequency–particularly music–sounds a tur muffled.

The bundled keyboard and mouse are some bugged, dark, and boring. The keyboard sports quiet, ma-black keys that are slenderly difficult to press. The keyboard also has bulk-control buttons (up, down, mute), along with a sleep button. The optical two-button pussyfoot features a rubbery scroll button and a rounded human body. The mouse is a little large for my admittedly small hands, simply is differently comfortable to use.

The HP 100B's ports are mostly located on the rear of the PC, though a fewer are positioned unofficially for easy admittance. On the right side is a one-armed bandit-loading DVD drive. On the left incline you'll ascertain 2 USB 2.0 ports and headphone and microphone jacks, as intimately every bit the power button. The rachis of the machine serves up four USB 2.0 ports, a gigabit ethernet embrasure, and a line-out jackfruit.

As you power have a bun in the oven, the HP 100B isn't exactly ripe for enlargement. It does support dormy to 8GB of RAM, still. The machine has a single mini-PCIe slot, but it's occupied.

On our WorldBench 6 benchmark tests, the H.P. 100B posted an unimpressive score of 53. The go past performers along our current list of budget wholly-in-one PCs (under 23 inches) achieved scores of 116 (HP Compaq 6000 Pro) and 94 (HP TouchSmart 310). Judging from those results, we know that HP is capable of making a quick budget all-in-unrivaled, but this finicky model packs AMD's new Nuclear fusion APU–a component that is first-class for reduction world power consumption and playacting back high-definition video but is lacking in muscle. Course, there's always price to deliberate. The aforementioned models toll $1000 and $800, respectively; when you begin to the HP 100B's price swan, you have the $500 HP Omni 100, which managed to make a mark of 70 along WorldBench 6.

As we expected for both a budget completely-in-one and a business background, gaming is just not an option. The HP 100B struggled to scrape out a entirely unplayable chassis rate of 16 frames per second at our lowest test settings (1024-by-768-pixel resolution and medium quality). Par for the course, really–the HP Omni 100 managed a better, but still unplayable, 20.5 fps at our lowest test settings.

If your business's needs are meager, if you're energy conscious, and if you don't want to spend to a higher degree $500 for an entire PC supporting players, the H.P. 100B could fill the bill. But the competition (among Horsepower's own wares, even) is stiff.