Best all in one computer under 1,000

Heads up that this board is going to try and steer you away from an all in one as they generally don’t get you as much value for your money and are harder to replace as if one thing goes out, you might have to buy an all new unit.

Having said that, it’s generally best to know what you’ll be doing with the machine to give a good recommendation.

Do you just need to get online, send emails, and run some basic programs? Any specific software that has higher resource needs you use for work?

If you aren’t doing any heavy data processsing, video editing, or playing games - most modern processors will be fine. Just make sure you have an SSD for storage and at least 8 GB of RAM memory.

I'm also full time work from home (have been for years). I'd recommend a laptop with dock over an all in one to give you greater flexibility. Is there any reason in particular you want an all in one?

Most people want an all in because they look cool.

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I'm eyeing a 24 inch I5 processor from Costco for 650

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If you’re referring to the Acer that is listed online:


I5 1035g1
12gb ram
1tb HDD + discreet 256gb ssd
1x HDMI output
1920x1080
W10Home


It’s a pretty decent value.
Reasons I’d buy it:
It could do most of what most office jobs would require.
If I wanted an all in one, there aren’t many that give you the horsepower in this for that price
You’ve basically done a great job of “beat this value for this price” and, while you could scroll through Amazon and the like for ages, you won’t do much better than this in that category for value.


Reasons to consider looking elsewhere:
Resolution is 1080p. Depending on the type of work you are doing, this may be just fine for you. If you haven’t put your hands on a 1440 or 2160 monitor to see just how big the difference is on your daily tasks, it would be worth a trip to Best Buy or whatever local electronics store has monitors that can be played with to see the difference side by side. I have both a Phillips 49” ultra wide (5210x1440) and an LG (3840x2160) 32” in two different setups in my office (wife and I have two desks in there, and we refer to each as our “battle stations”). There are pros and cons to both monitors. I have to deal with a few EHR that scale fine in either resolution, so I like the side by side capability of the 1440 resolution just fine. I don’t do a ton on spreadsheets, but I keep some household finance stuff in a few of them. I still much prefer doing this on the 2160 screen just because of how spreadsheets scale. So if you are a big spreadsheet guy or spend a lot of time doing work on something with as many discrete points of data as a spreadsheet, you may find yourself wanting to upgrade monitors. There is plenty of room in your budget to add on a nice enough monitor next to this to alleviate that problem (should it arise), but it doesn’t address the issue of the 1080p screen on your desk (if it is an issue at all).

There’s a small chance that you would need to upgrade to w10pro, but I would assume your work would reimburse you or you would have made it known earlier. If not, that’s about a $100 addition to do the legitimate way on your own through the store. This is likely a non-issue for you.


The tiny computers being referred to are made by most of the big manufacturers.
LINK would be an example of one. It would allow you, if you would like it, a nicer monitor or a pair of them for around the same price.



if you aren’t interested in the “other reasons to consider” stuff above, you can probably go ahead and grab that Costco one pretty confidently. If you do want the shed a little more light on what you’re doing/which 3 programs you use the most to do your job (and “web browser” is more than enough info) and the number of programs you are often using at a time, the folks here tend to understand the ergonomics of what you may not realize you want better than most places I’ve found on the internet.