Review : Viglen Omnino 4 All In One Computer

Viglen is one of the last British computer manufacturers to have survived the glorious era of the late 1990's and is best known for being acquired by Sir Alan Sugar's Amstrad back in 1994.

The company, which will be 35 years old in 2010, is based in Hertfordshire and has Bordan Tkachuk as CEO. Its main focus over the past few years has been in the public and educational sectors selling a wide range of products, from desktops, workstations, servers, HPC, mobile to software.

We received their latest Omnino 4 all in one computer, which according to the online description, is "stylish, compact and manageable" and which is available direct from Viglen for £765 including VAT. Viglen chose to send two boxes one containing the base unit and the other, a 22-inch Hanns-G monitor; obviously, we were slightly baffled since all-in-one computers are supposed to be err... integrated.

But that's not the case and we had to literally build the all in one by ourselves armed with a screwdriver, definitely NOT running out of the box and the fun doesn't stop here.

To connect most devices (speaker cable, power cable, VGA cable, Keyboard, mouse etc), you have to take off the base unit's cover, the side panel and slide the cable through a hole, then connect the peripherals.

Not straight forward and the end result is nowhere near as tidy as one would have expected. You see the Omnino 4 is actually a normal case embedded in another bigger, snazzier case, one which comes with coasters, has a silver finish with black fins and is made up entirely of plastic.