We’ve seen laptops and monitors with Nvidia 3D Vision technology before, but this is the first all-in-one we’ve come across with a screen capable of displaying games, movies and pictures in glorious 3D.

It isn’t as elegant as we’d like: the transmitter that synchronizes the images with the included active shutter glasses isn’t embedded in the chassis, but has to be connected via USB. You get everything you need to get started, though, and the 3D effect works well.

We’re less keen on the 24in panel. Detail is good and there’s no backlight bleed, but colours are oversaturated. We prefer the Sony, Dell and HP panels.

A range of touch-specific software is packed into a dock at the top of the screen, with launch buttons for media, note-taking and painting apps, alongside access to Asus’ @Vibe app store, cloud storage service and more. The software is slick, but there’s little to differentiate it from the pack.

The Asus has a strong specification. The Intel Core i7-740QM processor – one of Intel’s most powerful 45nm chips -has a stock speed of 1.73GHz, stretched across four Turbo-Boosted, Hyper-Threaded cores. Its score of 0.64 is right in the middle of the pack.

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 460M is this month’s most potent graphics chip. A score of 57fps in our Medium quality Crysis gaming test gave way to an impressive 28fps in the High quality benchmark – the only system to provide a near-playable score in this tricky test.

The rest of the machine includes 6GB of RAM, a 1TB hard disk and a Blu-ray drive. The speakers are loud and bassy, which makes for great gaming, but movie fans will be less pleased by the overblown mid-range. The only notable absence is a TV tuner.

The Sony and HP machines are better all-rounders, but as a gaming and movie system there isn’t much wrong with the Asus ET2400XVT. It has raw application power and 3D performance, a 3D screen and Blu-ray. For a 24in all-in-one, though, the price should be a tad lower.

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