Can I use All in One HP Envy 27-cp0007nq as a monitor?

[Arslan2023]

Hello,

I am planning to buy  HP Envy 27-cp0007nq  All in One PC but I want to know if I can use this All in One PC as a monitor? Can I connect my laptop thos this All in One PC with a Thunderbolt4 (Type-C) or HDMI Cable?

Thank you,

[BeemerBiker]

The external connectors are all output as far as I can see looking at a few specs

1 SuperSpeed USB Type-C® 5Gbps signaling rate; 2 SuperSpeed USB Type-A 5Gbps signaling rate; 1 HDMI 1.4b; 1 AC smart pin; 1 headphone/microphone combo

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You can certainly project your laptop onto your AIO so basically YES it can be used as a monitor but only for your laptop

Details here, just "exchange the names" as it describes using the laptop as the second monitor and you want to do the opposite.

https://www.techadvisor.com/article/731314/how-to-use-a-laptop-as-a-second-monitor.html

When projecting to the AIO you specify "extend" instead of "mirror" to get a second display.

[Arslan2023]

Hello Beemer,

Projecting to this PC is not the answer I am looking for. That feature in Windows works over network, refresh rate is slow. I want to know if I can connect my laptop to this All in One PC with a HDMI or Type-C cable so I can use the AIO as a monitor? Is this possible or not? Some old HP AIO models had HDMI in and HDMI Out ports but this newer generation HP Envy 27-cp0007nq  does not have HDMI in port. There is HDMI (I belive it is HDMI Out to connect a 2nd monitor to the AIO PC) and Thurderbolt4 type-C ports. The answer I am looking for is important to make a purcahse decision.

Thank you.

[Prométhée]

hi

Back I/O ports

• (1) RJ-45 Ethernet port
• (1) Headphone/microphone combo port
• (1) HDMI 2.0 output port
• (2) Thunderbolt 4 with USB4 Type-C 40Gbps signaling rate ports (USB Power Delivery, DisplayPort 1.4, HP Sleep and Charge)
• (4) USB Type-A 10 Gbps signaling rate ports
• (1) Power input port

Side I/O ports

• (1) USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C port
• (2) USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports (5 Gbps signalling rate; Battery charging 1.2)
• (1) HP 3-in-1 memory card reader

https://support.hp.com/emea_middle_east-en/document/c08151586

There is absolutely no possibility, via HDMI, only an output!
For the second option, maybe @BeemerBiker  has a solution, but personally, no idea, there are already quite a few problems, compatibility in the other direction, from what I have already read, so to connect in this type of case, I have more than one doubt!
But I don't know which recent model has the function

[Pendrell123]

Hi, just wondering if you were able to resolve this? I was looking to purchase the same aio but only if I can connect my laptop to it. Discussed with hp live chat who said they didn’t think it would work through the thunderbolt port 

[BeemerBiker]

You can project to it using WiFi or use a USB3 adapter (not same as cable) but the problem is lag & throughput.  It would work fine browsing the internet or working efficiency but you would never try to run a game on the laptop and have it display on the larger monitor.  Even a game like solitary would show lag over wifi or usb3