- A Chinese manufacturer, Seaviv, unveiled a new all-in-one PC
- The AideaOne R27 is a premium all-in-one like Apple’s iMac, but with a big difference
- It’s built around AMD’s powerful Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor, backed by an eye-opening amount of RAM.
AMD’s flagship Strix Halo chip is the powerful engine behind a new all-in-one PC unveiled in Asia.
As reported by VideoCardz, Chinese manufacturer Seaviv has unveiled the AideaOne R27 all-in-one PC, built around a 27-inch 4K display and AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor (which has found its way into many mini PCs and handhelds).
The hardware components are on the monitor stand, a different approach to placing them behind the screen as with a typical all-in-one device.
The AideaOne R27 is a high-end PC and is listed at 21,999 yuan in China, or around $3,170 in the United States. It’s a big step up from the Apple iMac M4 starting at $1,299 / £1,299 / AU$1,999, but the R27 packs some seriously powerful components to justify the price.
Seaviv’s all-in-one PC not only has that powerful 16-core Ryzen chip, which packs an integrated Radeon 8060S GPU, but it also comes with 128GB of RAM – which in itself costs a small fortune these days – as well as a 2TB SSD.
The RAM crisis has led to an unprecedented rise in the prices of memory kits. So all in all, the $3,000 price tag isn’t that surprising. After all, this is an all-in-one PC capable of performing demanding productivity and gaming tasks with similar performance results to an Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU.
This is a niche product, though, obviously – and one that the average consumer won’t be able to stomach, certainly not in comparison to Apple’s iMac.
Analysis: the OLED factor
There is one notable weak point with the AideaOne R27, and it’s not just the device’s availability outside of Asia (which we have no information on). This downside is that the all-in-one PC has a rather pedestrian screen in the form of a classic 60Hz IPS monitor.
This may seem somewhat inconsistent considering the rest of the high-powered specs, but it likely reflects the intended use, i.e. productivity and those working with AI locally (given the huge amount of RAM inside).
It will enable gaming and facilitate creative work, of course, but an OLED display – which is gradually becoming more affordable and common for PC monitors – would be much better for this type of use.
OLED of course offers much better contrast and color accuracy than a regular LED, while also providing a punchier, more immersive image. There’s also no backlight loss with OLED, as the technology relies on individual self-illuminated pixels (which allows for a truly deep black level).
Perhaps in the future we’ll see an all-in-one built around the powerful Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with an OLED display to give Apple something to really think about. The price would of course remain a question mark compared to such an all-in-one, which would certainly not be cheap.
I admire niche products, like this AideaOne R27 PC, that try to do something different, with its energetic hardware and the approach of integrating the components into the stand, rather than the display.
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