HP updates Pavilion all-in-one PCs with new CPUs, micro-edge displays, available in 23.8-inch and 27-inch touchscreen variants, starting at $749.99
The new line has a sleek ‘architecturally inspired’ redesign — HP just unveiled an updated Pavilion all-in-one (AIO) line of computers …
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This refresh slots into an unusually busy stretch for HP's desktop line. In late 2015 the company pushed the format upscale with an Envy all-in-one built around a 34-inch curved display at $1,799.99, and in September 2016 it experimented with the speaker-like Pavilion Wave and modular Elite Slice at $550 and $949.
The Pavilion update lands just weeks before HP's fall business push: the EliteOne 1000, whose screen is user-replaceable, arrives at $1,259. That makes this $749.99 consumer line the volume tier beneath two pricier siblings, and the place where 'micro-edge' bezels stop being a premium feature.
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- Budget-conscious AIO buyers get 23.8- and 27-inch touchscreen configurations with new CPUs starting at $749.99 — roughly $500 below the EliteOne 1000's entry price announced weeks later.
Second-order effects
- With slim bezels and touch now standard at $749.99, HP's own Envy and Elite lines lose display design as a differentiator, pushing them toward other hooks — the path the lineup later took with Alexa integration and replaceable screens.
Third-order effects
- If premium industrial design keeps trickling down to the sub-$800 tier within a single vendor's catalog, AIO competition shifts from panel aesthetics to modularity and services — the direction HP itself signaled with the EliteOne's swappable screen.
The trend: Mainstream all-in-one PCs are absorbing flagship display designs within months of their debut, forcing premium tiers to compete on modularity and software rather than looks.