this is a very exciting product from isus it is the brown box actually this
is an Eco box which is why it's brown it contains 80% post consumer materials and
100% recyclable cardboard which actually this is an important distinction because
uh lots of things say made from recyclable or recycled materials but
actually aren't made of very much recycled materials so this is the ET
2410 which is part of a new series of all-in-one PCS from ASUS some of the
highlights are going to be the overall build quality which obviously I haven't
opened it yet but based on ASUS's materials they're saying it's pretty
darn fine the metal stand which is part of the uh build quality discussion the
updated specs so these are Next Generation or second generation standy
Bridge processor parts and
the Slick design of the units themselves
now the one I have today is the et2410
which is the 24 in actually here I'll just show you this slide because you
guys might benefit from it so there's also the ET 2700 series which is 27 in
includes dedicated NVIDIA GTX Graphics
it has a blu-ray combo drive and 10-point multitouch okay the 2400 is
multitouch and has this one hold on let me just check the spec of our unit
anyway it's a higher spec than than the 22in model which is the most value
oriented option out of the ones available so here let's have a look at the spec of our unit so this is a core
i5 2310 so this is the higher end one it
has Windows 7 Home Premium 6 gigs of RAM a 1 tbyte Drive Wireless N with
Bluetooth and it is a 23.6 in touchcreen as I mentioned before it uses the
integrated Intel Graphics which isn't necessarily a bad thing because Intel
Graphics ever since they released sandybridge
aren't nearly
as much of a bottleneck as they used to
be all right so why don't we have a look
at the included accessories first before
we take a closer look at the all-in-one so here we go
included accessories we have a wireless mouse all right thanks for that ASUS
it's got kind of a rubberized grippy feel to it all right's throw that in
there we have a monstrous power brick remember this is not intended to be like
super portable so it's fine that it's a little on the heavy side there for size
comparison is the iPhone 4 there you go guys all right next we have a power
cable which plugs into that power brick so I'll take that out and that's it for
the things in here kind of a neat shaped box there you go see has kind of a shape
to it and finally I think this is a keyboard yep we got a keyboard
as well as a dongle which is for
something oh you know what it's probably for the mouse and keyboard and batteries
for the mouse and keyboard so here let's have a quick look at the keyboard itself
wow it's quite heavy actually it doesn't feel like those uh sort of
more less expensively manufactured ones
that often come with these all-in-one type units it's got a little bit of flex
to it but the overall feel is quite nice it's got some weight to it which is nice
to see it's a chicklet style keyboard um nothing nothing particularly out you
know outrageous to do with the layout here so it's got a nice long shift key
it's got a full length tab full length backspace and full length enter so
that's really good to see because it means that you will be able to reach all
of the keys the way that you're normally used to we got a warranty card
included all right and then next we have
a quick start guide which is right here and seems to
be fairly straightforward in terms of the steps included adjust the angle plug
in the thing push the thing plug in that thing B those things to that thing and
you're ready to go all right give me a sec to get this unpacked and then we'll
have a look at the unit so here we are experiencing the setup process it
actually comes with a variety of different languages that you can choose
including uh Italiano France
espol okay I have no idea okay Portuguese and nether
Dutch Dutch I guess that must be Dutch okay so we are in
Canada and syncing up the uh keyboard and the mouse was actually very very
straightforward use a United States uh oh time and currency whoops no no
English English Canada keyboard layout us there we go okay so once we're booted
up I'll I'll I'll get this going here here we are in the setup process
and you want to go ahead and accept the license terms which are required to use
Windows and this one I'm not so sure about but apparently the Bing Bar I am
required to accept that license in order to uh keep going here so actually hold
on let's see will it let me go no I have to I have to install the Bing Bar in
order to get booted up here so I'm going to just hold on to my
cheat sheet here because that makes life a little bit easier for me so let's have a look at some of the design features
that the et2410 features so first thing let's have a look at the overall
thickness so the thickness is actually 6 CM so what's that 60 mm not bad at all
actually here is an iPhone this is cameraman's iPhone you can tell cuz my
Wicked uh carbon fiber sticker isn't on the back okay so there you go that's the
overall thickness of the unit and then the size this is a 23.6 in 1080P LED
back lit WID screen so I'm just going to show you guys sort of the approximate
size against the iPhone which maybe isn't that useful I think everyone knows
how big a 20 24in class monitor is at this point in time okay so let's go
ahead and move around to let's do the back first well it goes ahead and
installs drivers for me so there's a couple different things here first there's the metal stand so the metal
stand allows you to position it on the table wherever you so desire okay it's
got rubber feet on the bottom so it's not going to move it's actually fairly
hard to to rock back and forth so it's not going to go anywhere and then you
can also adjust the tilt of the monitor
or the all-in-one I guess I shouldn't say monitor because it is an all-in-one
and it is a monitor but more on that later um all the way from pointing a
little bit face down to all the way back up like this so if you're actually
sitting quite a bit above it like on a bar stool you'll still be fairly
comfortable using it so it's got a pretty good angle overall there okay in
terms of input and output options let's start on the side here this looks like
an optical drive but bam it's not an optical drive it's stealth to inputs and
uh outputs rather well both Okay so
we've got two super speed USB 3 ports an
EA port an SD slot headphones and
microphone jacks all on the side of the unit for ease of access now around the
back for more of your permanent fixtures we've got an additional three USB ports
one of which we're using right now for the dongle for the included wireless
keyboard and mouse we've got gigabit Ethernet now this is cool check this out
HDMI out which is great if you wanted to add a second monitor HDMI and VGA in
which is pretty darn cool if say for example okay here here's a US scenario
for this you know what I'm going to come up with two right off the top of my head here one is let's say you have a
boardroom like we do at ncx and you don't have a projector in your boardroom
like we don't at NC and you use an Allin one PC because it's very convenient with
the touchcreen and all that like we have at NCI let's say someone brought a
laptop and they wanted to do a presentation instead of unplugging your
allinone and moving it and rearranging everything what you could actually do is
you could just plug it right into the HDMI or the VGA in on your in one PC in
your boardroom and you could display an output from the uh from the laptop easy
awesome and here's another scenario let's say your all-in-one PC is outdated
we're talking like 3 four 5 years from now you know what you need to do the
latest things with your computer it's not fast enough anymore that's cool it
doesn't matter that it's not upgradeable this has always been a beef of mine with
all-in-one PCS is that you can't upgrade them well now at least it's not a
throwaway now it can still be a monitor and you have that additional computer
functionality should you so require it maybe you have the computer on at all
times for something else maybe now it's a it's like a dedicated download box or
something like that but you can use the monitor for a higher powered PC right
here is a cable management spot which the cameraman evidently missed when he
was plugging in the power and finally we have a Kensington lock right about
here and I think that pretty much does it for the back so let's move around to
the other side I'm just going to go ahead and turn it all the way around for
you guys here and there we go I don't think this is
going oh yeah it did work okay there you have it so that's a DVD multi multi
reader writer CD also multireader writer
the higher end model comes with Blu-ray but this particular one does not and
then finally let's have a look at the front so on the front we have our
microphone in we've got our webcam we have as I mentioned before
1080p LED backlit screen which is
multi-touch and has no flex to it this
is critical because instead of using a flimsy plastic layer that has that
ripple effect and just is generally not
very desirable we've got a nice solid
feeling display surface that has no uh
no Ripple that you can see on flat backgrounds and just looks great and
when you press on it you actually don't see any discoloration of the screen
Around Your Finger which is really nice as well cuz I hate that about some multi
uh some touch screens when you touch them and they just go all discolored and
look and look horrible so let's go around to the bottom of it here if you
just want to come down here check out the bottom we've got our power button
here our hard drive indicator we have a volume control here a menu button volume
other more different control here and a mode button give me two seconds here
guys so we're booted up into Windows now I'm going ahead and restarting okay the
program that's not allowing us to restart is one that was going to automatically restart it in 20 seconds
so I'm not too worried about that along the Bottom bar here we have our power
button we also have our oh no I already said that we have a speaker bar along
the very very bottom with our assus logo here and we also have a Windows 7
sticker Core i5 energy star and DTS
surround sensation Ultra PC so let me just see if I'm missing anything uh you
know what let's have a look at the cooling so the exhaust fan is actually
coming out of here you can see a long heat pipe that goes through a very wide
it actually goes from here to here um
fin array that is going to be cooling the CPU which if you guys remember is
also the GPU and let me just see if there's
anything that I am missing here okay I already mentioned it is a
multi-touch I already mentioned it doubles as a monitor oh yeah it has wall
mount capability so if you pull this guy off you can actually buy a wall mount
from auss and you can use it as a PO display for example so that's kind of
neat as well uh last but not least
least oh cool comes with ASUS web
storage as well that's actually something that they're bundling in with a few of their products these days
including the EAD Transformer so there's
uh something that I had missed before
and okay let's just take it in then go ahead and go around to the other side
we've actually finally got it booted up fully here and uh running in the proper
resolution so do I want to use the assus screen saver not particularly oh yeah I
really like this screen actually this is pretty good so let's go ahead and launch
e- paint here you know what I really want to do is I want to set up the
Windows 8 preview on this thing so that we can really check out how a proper
properly touchscreen optimized OS is going to run on a machine like this
uh so we can oh okay I'm clearly Doing
It Wrong let's use that and draw Green
woo oh that's very responsive actually
look at that I wonder how many how many multi- touches do we get oh I think this
app only supports uh single touch let's see yeah single touch for this
particular application but it's very very responsive and very very smooth you
can see how long it takes to trace after me that's not bad at all it's a very
compelling looking little setup too very clean because it comes with all the
wireless peripherals that you're going to need and I think that pretty much
covers everything I wanted to say for now until we do a full NC Tech tips
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