Good AIO for under $775 CAD

[Clanscorpia]

So my uncles PC flumped on them. Because Costco usually has good prices they found this AIO. http://www.costco.ca/HP-Pavilion-23-r119c%2c-All-in-One-Bilingual-Desktop%2c-i3-4170T.product.100234338.html Is there anything better for the price? From what I can see it seems pretty good for the price. No custom building and preferebly AIOs. Thanks!

[Clanscorpia]

1 minute ago, CUDA_Cores said:

eww, I utterly hate AIOs as they are completely un-upgradable. You might as well just buy a mac at that point if you are considering an AIO. Before buying an AIO ask if you truly need one. If you are low on space a mini-ITX build may be better.

They are completely non techy and because they just bought a house they aren't risking building a PC. They're running on a core 2 quad so they're not looking to upgrade it fast.

[Clanscorpia]

3 minutes ago, CUDA_Cores said:

Yes, but while they might not know how to upgrade the computer, you can (assuming you live close enough). Over 8 years ago I had build a pentium E7200 machine for my grandma and thanks to how upgradable it was, I was able to upgrade it to a core 2 quad q6600, 4GB of RAM and an SSD. All she needs to do is use her computer for internet and that thing has been around for at least 8 years thank to the upgrades I have made to it. If I had bought an AIO at the time it likely would've been thrown out be now as I would not have been able to upgrade any of the parts in it. This is why I always try to advocate for a custom build or (if you don't want to build a computer), an off-the-shelf HP or Levono (NOT DELL) machine just so the life of the machine can be extended through upgrades. 

They're not planning on upgrading though, ever. 

[Clanscorpia]

1 minute ago, CUDA_Cores said:

So you don't live close enough to do the upgrades for them?

I can walk to them. Its just easier for them. I dont have a good rep in my family for fixing things..... "I" (Wasnt me) bricked my brothers laptop, and I broke our chromecast. Its would just be to hard on them if something broke during upgrading

[Donut417]

I agree with every one here. AIO's are the desktop equivalent of a laptop in most cases. Which means the hardware will not age well. I feel they will have to buy a new machine sooner rather than later if they go the AIO route. 

[Clanscorpia]

Turns out they fixed their PC by upgrading to windows 10. Maybe eventually I can make them an ITX build.