MSI PRO 24X 10M All-in-One PC Review

Performance

Obviously, this isn’t a full-fat PC like we usually test, it’s not even comparable to most of the laptops we’ve tested. 3DMark Firestrike, Unigine Superposition? No, that’s not really what this system is about and to be honest, the results would be pretty embarrassing. I ran a few benchmarks though, which we’ll cover in a moment. When you fire it up for the first time, you’ll be happy to know that Windows 10 Home is pre-installed.

Within 10 mins of Windows 10 setup, I’m at the desktop and everything is ready to rock. For the average consumer or the typical office wanting a quick and easy setup and deployment, this is just fantastic. I plugged it in, mouse, keyboard, done.

Full HD is good enough for a modest system like this. It’s plenty of real estate for reading a world-class website like eTeknix. You can side by side windows well enough at 1080p too. What I do like is that IPS panel, it’s got fantastic colours and a really good contrast level. Overall, I’d be happy working on this all day long.

Performance

Blasting through your 4K video editing and running Modern Warfare at max graphics is not what this PC is about. It’s about getting great daily performance from MS Office and Google Docs. Not having stutters when watching YouTube, or editing your family photos and videos in Photoshop or Premiere. The biggest advantage is the NVMe SSD it has built-in, offering up very good read and write speeds.

The i7 CPU is the most powerful available in this system, but it’s still not even close to the full-fat desktop CPUs. It’s a super low power part, which means low power usage overall, but also less heat and noise. It’s about one third the performance of the equivalent desktop version. However, it’s still not slow, as we’re not asking it to run big games or anything, so it feels pretty capable day to day.

The single core performance is decent enough though, 182 points is about on par with the i5-8600K, but the multicore is more in line with a budget Ryzen 5 or desktop i3.

Running PCMark 10 Express showed me that the system can do a lot quite smoothly and my own further testing confirmed it. Throwing up a video editors, far too many social media tabs and a few Skype windows showed no sign of slowing it down.

4620 points is REALLY competitive, that’s close to most high-end desktops. I suspect the fast SSD has a big hand in this performance.

Overall though, it’s great for media consumption. There’s a pair of speakers built in that have a good tone to them and they’re perfect for hitting up YouTube. Sure, they’re not the best for listening to the latest Cannibal Corpse album, but you could always add external speakers for some extra oomph.

While it won’t play the latest blockbusters, you can get your gaming kicks from GeForce Now, Steam in-home Streaming from your other PC (if you have one), or even fire up some retro stuff like MAME.