Asus All In One Pc 27

TechRadar Verdict

This automobile is now a bargain given that the operating arrangement itself costs more than than 2-thirds of the toll tag. Unfortunately, it sports a slow processor and unless you can live with that, you'd better wait elsewhere.

Pros

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Bang-up blueprint
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Tons of connectivity
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Free Windows 10
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Deal price indicate

Cons

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Bottomless performance

We don't ordinarily review products that have been out for a few years but the Asus Eeebox PC EB1033 (opens in new tab) was but too much of a good bargain to ignore, at least on paper, especially as one Britain retailer, Ebuyer, is selling information technology for just under £100 (effectually $155, or AU$210) and sent a motorcar over for a review (better belatedly than never).

At that price, it competes with the HP 260 G1 which we reviewed last month. Both devices share a number of similarities including the price and a pint-sized form factor.

Asus EeeBox PC EB1033 side — This is one thin and compact desktop PC

Design

The EeeBox EB1033 is one of the thinnest desktop computers we've tested to date. (Obviously, tablets and laptops are even thinner merely that's non the indicate). Compared to traditional PCs, this model uses a fraction of the material needed and has a recyclability rate of more than 90%.

While some may be quick to draw it as an HTPC (Abode Theatre Personal Computer), the EB1033 is simply besides suited for a business surround thanks to a slew of features.

EeeBox EB1033 ports — This Asus automobile offers plenty in terms of connectivity

With a thickness of just nether 3cm and weighing 700g, it is great for those looking to save space on an already crammed desk. It comes with a stand every bit well equally a rotatable VESA mount kit should y'all want to hide the EeeBox PC behind a monitor.

Annotation that its ability supply unit is an external 65W model that resembles a laptop power pack. The front of the EB1033 houses, from elevation to lesser, an SD bill of fare reader, a power button, 4 USB ports and two audio sockets.

Plough information technology over and you will discover a power socket, D-Sub and HDMI connectors for video, an Ethernet port (GbE), an antenna socket and two USB iii.0 ports.

Asus EeeBox PC EB1033 front — You tin mount the EB1033 behind your monitor

Specification and functioning

This PC comes with a 64-bit version of Windows 7 Dwelling Premium, useful every bit you tin can get upwards to 4GB of RAM on it; every bit such you should be able to upgrade to Windows 10 almost immediately. Given that Windows vii HP costs about £68 by itself, the EeeBox EB1033 turns out to be a pretty good deal.

Asus EeeBox PC EB1033 top — Unfortunately the CPU is a definite weak link

Things turn sour though every bit you turn on the computer and discover that it is powered by an Intel Atom D2550, a three-twelvemonth-onetime CPU that, despite offering two cores clocked at i.86GHz, is still shackled by its Cedarview origin and its 1MB L2 cache.

The rest of the configuration consist of an Intel NM10 chipset, 2GB of DDR3 memory expandable to 4GB, the maximum supported by the D2550, a 320GB SATA HDD spinning at 5400RPM, a discrete Nvidia Geforce 610M GPU and 802.11b/g/due north Wi-Fi.

Asus has also bundled a number of applications including its ain energy monitoring software besides as Adobe Acrobat Reader, Asus Vibe Fun Center, Trend Micro's Titanium Internet Security and a few other more or less useful applications.

Having such a plethora of applications running concurrently at launch puts a load on the figurer from the very showtime of your Windows session. The EeeBox EB1033 somehow manages to continue its calm consuming simply 18W when idle and 27W when under load.

Beingness ability thrifty however doesn't bode well when it comes to performance and the ugly truth became credible during the benchmarking process – the Asus EeeBox EB1033 is 1 of the slowest PCs we've tested for the terminal four years simply that shouldn't come as a surprise…

Compared to the HP 260 G1, the EB1033 is nearly 45% slower when it comes to sheer CPU and GPU performance; it has a bigger but slower hard disk bulldoze and Wi-Fi though.

Its general performance was on par with an entry-level Intel NUC and the Intel Compute Stick; both are powered by a Bay Trail-based Intel Atom processor.

Asus EeeBox PC EB1033 bottom — This PC was one of the slowest nosotros've e'er benchmarked

To its credit though, this Asus automobile did complete more benchmarks compared to the two aforementioned products, both of which failed to evangelize scores on a number of tests.

Here are the EB1033'due south benchmark results in full:

Geekbench 32-bit: 477 (single); 1165 (multi)
3DMark: 12817 (Ice Storm); 1350 (Cloud Gate); Did non run (Fire Strike)
PCMark 8: 933 (Dwelling house); 1079 (Work); 578 (Creative)
Cinebench fifteen: 54 (CPU); Did not run (GPU)

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