Lenovo AIO 910 Review - All in One 27' Touch Screen PC That Folds Flat

VIDEO INDEX:
00:56 - Hardware overview
01:33 - Folding down the display
05:31 - Web browsing and YouTube / video performance
06:50 - Microsoft Word / Office test
07:19 - Gaming: Minecraft
07:53 - Gaming: Rocket League
08:22 - Gaming: Counterstrike: GO
09:44 - Kodi - HEVC and Blu Ray MKV
10:37 - Intel RealSense camera discussion
11:39 - Conclusion and final thoughts

This one to some degree is eclipsed by Lenovo's own Y910 all in one that performs better and is more upgradeable. This one has the advantage of allowing its 27 inch display to fold flat to a desk.

The machine is equipped with the latest sixth generation Intel processors and 16 gigs of DDR4 RAM. Oddly the RAM is configured in single channel mode which hinders its benchmark performance.

While the display is 4k, it's very reflective and a bit cloudy due to all of the touch screen hardware built into it. There's also a sizable air gap between the display and front glass.

All in it's not bad, but Lenovo makes better all in one hardware.

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[Stevensborne]

5 secs into this video and that monitor wobble killed it for me.

[pimisi]

This makes you fully appreciate the amount of engineering Microsoft put in the surface Studio.

[furrane]

Please please please mention the price of the item you're reviewing at the start of the video. Greats reviews =)

[Huststyler]

The real sense webcam can be used instead of a green screen when streaming and it works surprisingly well so long as the ambient lighting isn't too dark

[Link]

Hey Lon, you can use the Intel RealSense camera for Windows Hello. This provides a very secure way of logging in quickly, the camera can even differentiate between identical twins. It's like the fingerprint reader you see on phones, but using your face instead of your fingers.

[dennisolof]

I too was looking into this a while ago, the AIO systems. But unfortunately the only one I could find that used the Thin-ITX standard was a monitor from Gigabyte, but for some reason AIO systems that is build with standard components have not become popular, kind of sad as these types of AIO desktop computers are great for office stuff. It is similar to mounting a case behind the monitor but instead of that, you open the monitors back plate and install the components in the monitor.

The big issue for me is I do not like custom parts, if they break down you can not replace it so easy, or perhaps not at all so you would then have to get another computer and so on. These AIO systems are probably the only way to regain customers that prefer laptops to the good old regular computer cases that we all had back in the day. Some still do but not the general consumer who do not care about anything computer hardware related.

Nice review and great that Lenovo let you try the product.

[glussier]

Note that there is 2 ram slots on this computer, so you could upgrade to dual channel anytime you so wishes. Also, the Intel Realsense camera supports windows 10 hello, so, you can use this camera to login to windows

[Programmer]

I think part of the problem for the lackluster CPU performance is its TDP class. The i7-6700T is only a 35W CPU, whereas even the XPS 15 and MacBook Pro 15-inch are using 45W Core i7 CPUs. The i5 in the Y910 you reviewed is a 65W i5.

[alittleolder]

I already decided on what my next machine will be. An AMD based Tower for around $800 to $1000 should be great for my needs.

[GuriSingh]

Sir i have watched ur vedio of LG 24MP 88HV & SAMSUNG CF 390 24". Please tell me which one of them is worth buying i am little bit confused.

[hrvatska]

Can you tell me if there is an active pen for this computer? I own it, but I can't find an active pen with which to draw, for example.

[thespector]

Lenovo is one of the few companies that loans you a lot of their products. thumbs up for them for supporting small yt channels. terrible product though...

[KharelSaurab]

It could be because of the single channel ram you mentioned, or the fact that it is running with a low power consumption I7 cpu intended for Laptops, All in ones and SFF PC's vs a High power consumption desktop chip.

[evanthonypaglinawan]

Hi, will you recommend it for photo editing like Lightroom? Many thanks.

[handquake]

Would be curious to see how this runs one of the El Capitan or Sierra VMWare MacOS installs from SadeemPC or the like.

[LogologicsNl]

Hi, Can you confirm this is indeed the i7 with 16 Gb ram you are talking about and that there is a 1TB hard drive in the foot? I bout this one yesterday and there is only an emty space in the foot where the hard drive should reside and no 1T HDD in there???

According to Lenovo support this model i7 would not have a 1TB harddrive, but their cheaper i5 does have it. Can you confirm that you actually had this i7 and there was a 1T hardrive in there please? Where I bought it also said in the specs that there was a 1TB hdd in there. unfortunately it is sold out now and I can no longer refer to those specs I saw when I bought it...

[LonSeidman]

A few of you pointed out the TDP (power consumption) of this chip is lower than comparable machines. So while it's an i7 it's running a little slower as a result compared to other Skylake chips we've looked at. That + the single channel configuration definitely hinders its performance a bit.

[orangeActiondotcom]

The performance hit you see is most likely because the CPU, even though it is a Core i7, is probably not a quad-core processor. Most slimline, integrated or laptop Core iX processors use these "UltraBook"-class dual-core chips. This has been true since Intel introduced the UltraBook class. Obviously these chips don't run as hot and therefore fit better into these specialized form factors.

Make no mistake, you do get a performance boost by going with a dual-channel memory configuration, but nowhere near as drastic as you see as the result of your benchmarks here.

[ericbazinga]

Just wanna mention that this is pretty much a Microsoft Surface Studio clone

[chistophee]

Lon again you are running a old version of minecraft can you update it to see if it runs better or worse?