• A Chinese manufacturer, Seaviv, has revealed a new all-in-one PC
• The AideaOne R27 is a premium-looking 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 with an eye-opening amount of RAM

AMD‘s flagship Strix Halo chip is the powerful engine of a new all-in-one PC that’s been revealed over in Asia.

As reported by VideoCardz, Chinese manufacturer Seaviv has unveiled the AideaOne R27 all-in-one PC, which is built around a 27-inch 4K screen and AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor (which has found a home in plenty of mini PCs and handhelds).

The hardware components are in the monitor’s stand, a different approach to situating them behind the screen as with a typical all-in-one device.

The AideaOne R27 is a premium-looking PC and is listed at 21,999 yuan in China, which is around $3,170 in the US. That’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 doesn’t just have that beefy 16-core Ryzen chip, which incorporates a Radeon 8060S integrated GPU, but it’s also packed 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 hike in prices for memory kits, so all in all, the $3,000 price tag is not that surprising. After all, this is an all-in-one PC that can tackle demanding tasks for productivity, and gaming with performance results similar to an Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU.

It’s a niche product, though, obviously enough – and not one the average consumer will be able to stomach the price of, certainly not in comparison to Apple’s iMac.

Analysis: the OLED factor

There’s a notable weak spot with the AideaOne R27, and it’s not just the availability of the device outside of Asia (which we don’t have any info on). This downside is that the all-in-one PC has a rather pedestrian screen in the form of a regular 60Hz IPS monitor.

That may seem like something of a mismatch given the rest of the high-powered spec, but it’s likely a reflection of the intended usage – meaning productivity, and those working with AI locally (given that massive lump of RAM inside).

It’ll do gaming, and facilitate creative work, sure, but an OLED screen – which are gradually becoming more affordable and common for PC monitors – would be much better for those types of usage.

OLED offers much better contrast and color accuracy than a regular LED, of course, while delivering a punchier, more immersive image. There’s no backlight bleed with OLED, either, as the tech relies on individual self-lit pixels (which allows for a truly deep black level).

Maybe in the future, we’ll see an all-in-one built around the powerful Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with an OLED screen to give Apple something to really think about. Price would, of course, remain a question mark over such an all-in-one, which definitely wouldn’t come cheap.

I admire niche products, like this AideaOne R27 PC, which are trying to do something different, with its peppy hardware and the approach of building the components into the stand, rather than within the display.

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Isaiah is a Staff Writer for the Computing channel at TechRadar. He’s spent over two years writing about all things tech, specifically games on PC, consoles, and handhelds. He started off at GameRant in 2022 after graduating from Birmingham City University in the same year, before writing at PC Guide which included work on deals articles, reviews, and news on PC products such as GPUs, CPUs, monitors, and more. He spends most of his time finding out about the exciting new features of upcoming GPUs, and is passionate about new game releases on PC, hoping that the ports aren’t a complete mess.