HP All-in-One DG0034 2026, Intel N100, 8GB, 128GB SSD + 500GB HDD

A quiet, basic AIO with a screen that's fine and storage that's not. The 128GB internal drive is the dealbreaker, unless you find it dirt cheap.

The N100 surprised us a little. For a 4-core chip at this price, it handles web browsing, Office apps, and video calls without feeling like you're waiting on it constantly. The 8GB of DDR5 helps, but it's the bare minimum for Windows 11 these days. The real bottleneck is that 128GB UFS internal drive. It's fast enough for booting, but you'll fill it with Windows updates and a few apps before you know it. Then everything else has to live on that external 500GB HDD, which is slow and ugly hanging off the back. Gaming? Forget it. The integrated UHD Graphics lands in the bottom third of our database, and the gaming score of 8.1 out of 100 is one of the worst we've seen for this category.

The Dell Desktop ECT1250 is the more sensible pick if you don't need the AIO form factor. You'll get more storage and upgradeability for similar money, and Dell's budget desktops tend to have better port selection. The Lenovo Legion 90YA003GUS and MSI Aegis Z2 are in a completely different league for gaming and heavy work, but they cost more and use way more power. The Apple Mac Studio M3 Ultra is not even a fair comparison, it's a workstation that costs several times more. For a basic office AIO, the HP's real competition is other budget all-in-ones from Lenovo and Acer, and those often come with 256GB or 512GB internal SSDs at the same price.

At $700 USD, this is a tough sell. You're paying for the all-in-one form factor and the HP name, but the specs are closer to a $400 laptop stuffed into a monitor. The 128GB internal drive alone should give you pause. If you can find this on sale for under $500, it becomes a reasonable basic office machine. At full price, you're overpaying for convenience.

The HP All-in-One DG0034 is a budget AIO that gets the basics right but stumbles on the details. The one thing to know? It's a fine email-and-spreadsheets machine for a small desk, but that 128GB internal drive is going to annoy you faster than you think. The Intel N100 is efficient and quiet, the 21.5" FHD screen is decent, and Windows 11 runs okay. But HP paired a slow-ish processor with a tiny boot drive and then bolted on an external 500GB HDD as a band-aid. That's not premium storage, that's a workaround.

If you're looking for a machine that can handle gaming, video editing, or heavy multitasking, this isn't it. Go get a desktop with a dedicated GPU and at least 16GB of RAM instead. If you just want a clean AIO for email and web but hate external drives hanging off your desk, skip this and find one with a 256GB or 512GB internal SSD. The HP's storage setup will drive you nuts within a month.

Skip it at full price. The HP DG0034 is a decent basic AIO with a fatal flaw: 128GB of internal storage in 2026 is not enough for Windows 11 and a few years of updates. The external HDD is a clumsy fix that ruins the clean AIO aesthetic. If you can get it for under $500 and only need email, web, and light Office work, it's acceptable. Otherwise, buy a budget desktop with a real SSD or spend a bit more on an AIO with 256GB or more internal storage.