HP will be hoping to get youngsters who love the Beats branding onboard. Okay, the bar is set pretty low for built-in speakers, but the HP machine is certainly good enough for background music when you’re working on the PC. Music just sounds fuller, clearer and less of an afterthought than most all-in-one PCs. Fortunately, HP has not gone crazy on the bass either, especially when I tried a FLAC version of Diana Krall’s Live in Paris album.Īll the same, if you like to pump things up with Black Eyed Peas, as I did, the Envy Beats machine reaches lower in the low frequencies than what you’d expect. In this all-in-one machine, the sound from the quad speakers plus quad subwoofers simply has more presence. I’m not crazy about Beats headphones. But with the Envy Beats PC, you have to say it beats most of the thin-sounding competition out there. Wait a minute, didn’t Apple just buy Beats? Yes, but the partnership between Beats and HP will continue until 2015, at least. What the HP machine does promise is improved audio quality through the front speakers with Beats Audio. Certainly, when it comes to looks, it stands little chance against the sleek, slim metallic frame of the iMac. This vamped up version of the usual HP all-in-one series has a few tricks up its sleeve. Few can compete on looks or features with the Apple iMac today, but the new Envy Beats All-in-one tries manfully.

You have to give it to HP for not giving up on the all-in-one PC market.

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