The HP Pavilion MS214 is an entrance for all-in-one desktop PC launched by HP late last year. It comes with a 19-inch form factor, has a good display, well built, and offers very good value for money.

The HP Pavilion MS214 is much more well built. Its display (encased in black plastic) is ably backed up by a nice and tough Apple iMac as stand, which lets the display tilt rear and forth, and it's definitely one of the best we've seen. The rear panel is compartmental and lets for simple access to the system RAM and hard drive, should you feel the requirement, and HP does a good job of spelling it out in its assist documents. There are connectivity ports on the left edge and back panel of the screen, while a DVD writer is placed on the right edge.



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The 18.5 inch wide display is non-glossy in quality. It sports a 16:9 aspect ratio and a maximum display result of 1366x768, well-equipped for seeing high-definition content. The display is pleasant and bright, and evenly lit, offering very good displaying angles, contrast levels and color saturation. Watching movies and reading text went very well on the Pavilion MS214's display. Still, unlike the MSI Wind Top AE1900 and Asus Eee Top ET1602, the HP Pavilion MS214's display doesn't support a catchy touch input characteristic.

Like to the Benq n display i91, and unlike most entrance all-in-one PCs that are depended on Intel's Atom processor, the Pavilion MS214 is depended on an AMD processor. It has a 1.5-GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core chip, which is substantially faster as compared to Intel's rival Atom processor. Like the Lenovo Idea Centre C300, the Pavilion MS214 also comes with 2GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive, where we've watched most budget all-in-one PCs standardize on a miserable 1GB RAM and a 160GB hard drive. The Pavilion MS214 doesn't come with quicker connectivity qualities similar to Gigabit Ethernet or Wi-Fi 802.11n, rather having to create do on slower 100Mbit LAN and 802.11 b/g qualities. Still, it does come with an ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics -- not for gaming but good enough to handle HD content.