The bad: We'd rather convey more robust components than the touch input, and we've also seen larger screens with this price range.
The bottom line: After a 10-year absence in the consumer desktop market, Toshiba makes a confident return using the DX1210-ST4N22, which offers an appealing combination of cost, performance, and functionality.
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Toshiba stopped making consumer desktops for that U. S. market almost 10 years ago, if the new Toshiba DX1210-ST4N22 is any indication, it appears Toshiba has found some viable economics within the all-in-one market. This 21. 5-inch, $935 system isn't quite as fast as others in this cost range, but it has a clean look and a few useful features, including touch input and the capability to work as a display for HDMI-based video resources. We're still waiting for an all-in-one vendor hitting upon the perfect combination of value and functionality only at that price, but for its... Expand full review
Toshiba has opted for a simple design because of its new all-in-one, relying on a clean, glossy black bezel with silver-gray trim across the bottom edge. The right side of the framework has dedicated buttons for volume, screen brightness, display power, and input select, a more logical group of controls than you usually see on competing all-in-ones.
While 21. 5-inch screens such as the Toshiba's are common in this price range, you may also get 23-inch displays in sub-$1, 000 all-in-ones such as the Dell Inspiron One 2305. Since the Inspiron One 2305 also has an HDMI input it might seem to achieve the overall advantage, but you can see from our performance tests how the Toshiba scored significantly faster than the AMD-powered Inspiron in nearly every test. None of these Windows all-in-ones is intended for demanding HD video editing, and although the Toshiba's Core i5 4010 chip includes a relatively robust embedded graphics core, it can barely handle the overall game Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and only then from its lower image-quality settings. Still, the Toshiba DX1210 is acceptably fast because of its price, and its versatility makes up for exactly what it lacks in raw performance.
In addition in order to its HDMI input, this Toshiba all-in-one boasts a set of USB 3. 0 inputs, still a relatively unusual connectivity feature. You also get four slower HARDWARE 2. 0 jacks, as well as an additional, enclosed USB 2. 0 jack that neatly homes the wireless mouse and keyboard receiver. Other advices include two analog audio jacks and an Ethernet adapter. We may like to see digital audio outs, but or else, we can only think of a few other ports we'd really like to increase this system.
Unlike on most other touch-based all-in-ones, you will not find a big application suite designed to circular out the DX1210-ST4N22's touch support. Toshiba includes some useful apps that lend themselves to the touch input, including Toshiba's Book Place e-book store as well as reader, and ReelTime, a carousel interface that shows large, touch-friendly icons of your document and plan history. This approach is more understated than which of other touch-input peddlers, and does a good job of using touch input without overselling the concept.
