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    News - Dell's 24in XPS One desktop hits UK shores

    Dell's range-topping all-in-one system is now available to UK customers with prices starting at £1,399.
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    Re: News - Dell's 24in XPS One desktop hits UK shores

    I recently took delivery of the top-spec Dell XPS One 20" for my step-dad; Dell were doing 50% off so he got me to order him one while he's out of the country, and keep hold of it for a few months until his return. Very impressive machine, comes with loads of kit as standard, and has full wireless abilities, making it a true one-cable-only set-up (just the power cable).

    It does of course beg for the inevitable comparison the the iMac, but it fairs pretty well in my opinion. While the iMacs may be a bit sleeker, and run quieter and cooler thanks largely to their use of notebook CPUs, the XPS One has an integrated digital TV tuner that works very well with Media Centre, a reasonably decent wireless mouse and keyboard (with a built-in touchpad, surprisingly useful) and a dedicated media remote, a card reader and loads more USB ports.

    The main thing I feel that lets it down is the maximum of 2GB of RAM, especially at the prices these machines usually sell at. It appears to be possible to upgrade that, but only by removing the entire back cover. The CPU isn't the fastest either, it's only a 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo.

    Still, it's a nice system to use and after a format and re-install of Vista sans Dell's bloatware, it was certainly no slouch. One oddity I did notice though was that it came with Vista pre-SP1, which is odd for a system these days.

    Don't think I could ever bring myself to pay full price for an XPS One, but for what that one cost, it's definitely a bargain.

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    Re: News - Dell's 24in XPS One desktop hits UK shores

    At the money Dell is asking, you could get an even more powerful (and by now, very much aged) iMac, when Apple does a refresh the XPS One is going to start looking like a joke.

    @TheVoice: the iMac doesn't use laptop CPUs, they're proper desktop CPUs.
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    Re: News - Dell's 24in XPS One desktop hits UK shores

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    @TheVoice: the iMac doesn't use laptop CPUs, they're proper desktop CPUs.
    Having opened several iMacs up and performing processor swaps/upgrades I can certainly say that they're the mobile core 2s. if memory serves the current iMacs use the P8600, P9500, T9600 [might be the X9000... not 100% sure what the '2.8GHz' one is] and the X9100...

    the Mac Pro is the only apple computer that comes to mind that uses 'proper desktop' CPUs

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    Re: News - Dell's 24in XPS One desktop hits UK shores

    No, the Mac Pro uses Xeons, they're workstation/server chips.
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