I used to work with, and on, PCs, and I got burned-out on them. To say that I am tired of having to deal with the complexities and mismatches of homemade PCs (or any PC) is an understatement.
My last PC finally gave up the ghost over Thanksgiving. So, I ordered this PC for myself during the holidays. It did take a week to get to me. But, I am very happy about several things about buying this computer.
• It arrives, fully-assembled, in an unassuming box that is not larger than it has to be, and the computer is inflate-packaged. (You do have to pull some of the inflate-packaging out from inside the PC, and peel the glass protectors off.)
• The glass. It's real glass. Heavy glass. Held on with sturdy thumb-screws. And the view inside, and the overall esthetic of the PC, is beautiful.
• The ports and controls are so sleek and nice. The outside of this PC looks no different or more complicated than you normal flat-screen television these days.
I have and had absolutely no patience for any shenanigans from any computer, so I pulled this sucker out of the box, pulled off the packaging, threw it where my last PC was, plugged it in, and threatened it to act any way other than smooth like butter.
It did not disappoint. I hit the power button for the first time, and it lit up, and it was completely silent, and the PC was at the desktop screen within 30 seconds. I am a gamer, so I fired up my favorite game. Smooth like butter.
The Bluetooth capability of this PC comes in the form of a dongle that is in a separate bag. I've had so-so experiences with dongles like these in the past, so I sighed when I first saw it. But, that turned out good, too. The dongle plugs into any of the USB ports. I immediately had it find my wireless wall-mounted speaker, and it's been good ever since.
The only downside is that it comes with a remote control for the colors of the fans. I guess we are sliding back into needing a remote control for everything. I considered just turning off the lights (which is an option), but the dark blue has such a nice cool feeling to it, so I left it on that. But, you can switch between, like, eight different colors, and, like, eight different patterns. I did not spend more than thirty seconds on this part of the computer, and I threw the remote control into the bottom of some drawer.
The price is really good, too. If you look up the individual specs of this PC, and piece it together yourself, you will end up spending probably almost twice as much. At least 50 percent more.
I am willing to pay a lot of money for peace of mind. In this case, the peace of mind did not cost nearly as much as I expected it to.
In short, it's been running for something like two months straight now. I've restarted it a couple times just out of maintenance, but I have not gotten a single error message or errant beep.
I don't think I missed anything important. If I did, I'll come back and edit this post.
| Screen Resolution | 3840 x 2160 |
|---|---|
| Max Screen Resolution | 3840 x 2160 |
| Processor | 3.4 GHz core_i7 |
| RAM | 16 GB SDRAM |
| Memory Speed | 3.9 GHz |
| Hard Drive | 512 GB SSD |
| Graphics Coprocessor | AMD Radeon RX 580 |
| Chipset Brand | AMD |
| Card Description | Dedicated |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 8 |
| Wireless Type | Bluetooth |
