HP Omni 100

The HP Omni 100 has something that most other all-in-one desktop PCs lack: a price under $600. The Omni 100 is well-equipped at this price point: 3GB of memory, 500GB hard drive, and a dual-core processor. It has most, if not all, the features you’d want in an affordable all-in-one PC, and it doesn’t feel like an underpowered nettop.

Like the Apple iMac, the Omni 100 is a screen suspended by an arm with a single tilt point. Unlike the iMac, which is made of aluminum, the Omni is made of black plastic. The Omni 100 has adequate, built-in speakers, six USB 2.0 ports, a 6-in-1 digital media card reader, a Webcam, Ethernet port, and audio ports on the system. The system’s widescreen has a 16:9 aspect ratio and 1,600-by-900 resolution—not quite 1080p “True HD” but enough to display 720p online videos and 480p videos from DVDs.


The Omni 100 is fast enough to keep up with the general PC user, scoring 3,066 on our PCMark Vantage test; it topped the 2,000-point scores of Intel Atom-powered nettops like the Lenovo IdeaCentre Q150 and Giada Slim-N20. On the Handbrake video-encode test, it scored a respectable 5:31, and on Photoshop CS5, it held its own at 10:48.

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