you know it's a funny thing it's like apple does something and then everyone
else goes hm that's a pretty good idea
and does the same thing 3 years later for a fraction of the cost meet the
latest member of the club the HP wave a
trash can PC starting at 600 bucks
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vrgo backpack which features a GTX 1070
and Intel Core i7 processor learn more at the link
below so what exactly is this thing well
hp's slogan is a desktop PC designed to
be seen so we'll mark it on its looks
first at 9 and 1/4 in high and close to
7 in wide in a rounded triangular shape
it's very small for a desktop with this much Hardware inside and features a gray
fabric wrap around the outside that looks really modern but doesn't draw
unnecessary attention that is assuming you can find somewhere to stash the
unsightly power brick so it is pretty
but can it perform actually the specs
are not bad our core i7 model Sports a
power optimized lifestyle CPU whatever that means which
basically trades some performance for
lower heat and power consumption it's got a good mix of solid state and
spinning storage and a functional if not
4K AAA gaming ready GPU curiously hp's
website says up to 16 gigs of RAM but as
far as we can tell there's no way to order such a beast so you might have to
upgrade it with one of those empty slots yourself noise is probably the biggest
downside of the wave which Peaks at 50
DBS and a whopping 86° on the CPU under
load though that in itself isn't the
biggest problem even short bursts of
activity like installing a program make the fan wind up then wind back down and
this irregular fluctuation in the sound quality makes it very hard for the wave
to blend in with background
noise which isn't to say there isn't any reason you couldn't try to drown it out
in a bit of an unusual move HP has integrated a speaker into the tower it
sounds best at about half volume which is loud enough for background music at a
small dinner party but not for movie watching and sports half decent base
although It suffers as sounds get more complex everything I am by Kanye sounds
right at home but busier tracks such as LCD sound systems Daft Punk is playing
at my house get muddled and a bit messy
a problem that is exacerbated by the fact that the speaker's output Grill is
also the exhaust vent for the cooling solution to look inside the wave all we
needed to do was remove three screws and from here the RAM and 3 and 1/2 in
storage hard drive are easily accessed for upgrades
but an m.2 SSD swap would be much more
difficult totally disassembled we can see why the thermal performance was a
little lackluster system cooling is handled by these copper heat pipes that
lead to a small heat sink with a single
blower style fan for airf flow even compared to a stock Intel heat sink it's
a little anemic looking and it's responsible for the video card as well
not that it's a super for powerful one or anything the wave isn't made for
gaming and it shows but I still give HP
credit for including more than onboard Graphics rise of the Tomb Raider on the
lowest settings at 720p ran at a
playable 40fps and Esports games like Dota csgo
or OverWatch will run fine as long as you manage your expectations and you
don't try to play them with the included wireless keyboard and mouse they're
functional and it's NE neat that they don't require any setup thanks to the
receiver that's zip tied to an internal USB port but they're possibly actually
worse than what you'd expect for included peripherals in a starting at
599 computer I'd replace the keyboard immediately if I intended to do any
serious word processing work and the mouse's unusual kind of Sonic the
Hedgehog profile shape didn't fit the hand of anyone that I showed it to so
yeah but while at this point in the
video you might be thinking gee he sure
doesn't like this thing very much truthfully I wasn't that stoked on it
until I tried to find something that out competes it and if you want a reasonably
high performance little machine thermals
and Acoustics aside it's very functional
it powered through productivity image editing watching 4K content and even
light video work and it does it without taking up a lot of space or looking ugly
in your apartment or your studio for competing trash can PCS there's really
not much else out there the Mac Pro is in a totally different class using
workstation Hardware at five times the price the MSI Vortex is similarly uh
much more expensive and the extra $700
you'd be giving Samsung for an art PC
seems to be going towards an aluminum chassis and Easy Storage expansion and
for that kind of money you could swap a 10 tbte Seagate Enterprise hard drive
into the wave and still have enough left over for 436 chicken McNuggets even
looking Beyond trash cans it's very competitive a similarly speced laptop
will cost you an additional 200 bucks which is enough to cover a monitor and a
replacement keyboard for the wave and many mini PCS were either much less
powerful or clearly made with gaming in mind sacrificing some processor speed
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