Is This 58-Inch Whopper The World's Biggest All-In-One PC?

If you want to see big televisions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, you don’t have to look very hard. If you want to find what very well may be the world’s largest all-in-one PC, however, you’ve got to wander away from the show floor and into AMD’s relatively modest meeting room.

On display, a 58-inch all-in-one PC built by Haier’s Casarte brand. The $4000 machine is sold only in China as a sort of smart TV. Underneath the surface, however, this two-inch thick machine is much like any other PC: it runs Windows 7, it runs Microsoft’s Windows Media Center software, and it’s built around an AMD g-series processor.

Yes, while Intel is cramming its chips into ever smaller packages, rival AMD’s chips can be found inside this monster. AMD may not have anything like Intel’s giant booth, they do seem to be having fun, albeit in an extremely geeky way.

Their meeting room is equipped with the latest version of Microsoft’s touch-screen surface computer (which is built with AMD’s processors), a powerful little PC that uses a lighted fan as a decorative element, and a gaming rig attached to five high-definition monitors for the ultimate Battlefield 2 experience.

And then there’s that giant TV, or smart TV, or all-in-one PC. Of course, this machine chiefly used as a television -- its PC guts give it the muscle to handle 3D post processing chores. The really impressive part, however, is you’re feeling a little perverse you can pull up a chair, grab a keyboard, and lean in for the ultimate retina-burning web-surfing experience.