A picture speaks a thousand words:

Gateway “ONE”-style, it costs more than an iMac and is nowhere near a pretty, nor as highly spec’d.

Why would anyone even consider this POS?

The people who complain about the “chin” on the iMac ought to have a field day with the “ears” on this Dell monstrosity.

Not till monday officially, I think. The Flash teaser says that will be the end of the PC as we know it. I’m not sure why Dell is telling everyone, you’d think they want to keep the end of the PC a secret . . .

I think Jonathan Ive just threw up

The perfect recession-analyst-desktop. What more could one want? 

At least with a specific comparable from Gateway and Dell, it will plain to even the feeblest mind that “You pay more for a Mac” just isn’t true.

[quote author=“sleepygeek”]Not till monday officially, I think.

It’s been so thoroughly leaked that it’s on sale now instead of Monday:

20 inch XPS One from $1499

(20 inch iMac starts at $1199, but is different spec)

[quote author=“sleepygeek”][quote author=“sleepygeek”]Not till monday officially, I think.

It’s been so thoroughly leaked that it’s on sale now instead of Monday:

20 inch XPS One from $1499

(20 inch iMac starts at $1199, but is different spec)

It’s interesting that no where on the Dell page do they mention what speed the processor runs at.

Re: Dell vomits up the XPS One, "iMac Killer"

[quote author=“Tommo_UK”]A picture speaks a thousand words:

Gateway “ONE”-style, it costs more than an iMac and is nowhere near a pretty, nor as highly spec’d.

Why would anyone even consider this POS?

It reminds me of the…80’s. It’s about 20 years late on design. 

The only thing I can find about the e4500 processor is at Intel. Says it is 2.2GHz. So it falls between the bottom and middle configuration of the iMac.

PC Mag thinks the XPS One “matches the iMac for aesthetics”

Its amazing how much positive editorial a long-term advertising commitment can buy

Engadget reports:

PC Mag has reviewed the Dell XPS One, the machine which we originally revealed on these here pages. The unit they got their hands on was the top-end $2,399 model—what, you think Dell would risk lumping ‘em with the budget range?—and the overall impression was very good if you limit yourself to the praise of the PC’s numerous features. A built-in HDTV tuner with remote, Blu-ray, and 802.11n round out the 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, and 500GB HDD. The reviewer also thought that the design was a strong aspect of the XPS One, matching the iMac for aesthetics and minimalism.

Fortunately CNET “gets it”:

Dell’s new XPS One wins “the prize for most affordable [US$2,399] all-in-one with a Blu-ray drive,” Rich Brown reports for CNET Reviews. But, “you can get better overall computing and home theater experiences from other systems.”

“If it’s not the best pure living room PC, the [20-inch] XPS One is also not the best productivity-oriented desktop, even among other all-in-ones. In that category, Apple’s iMac still rules the day,” Brown reports.

“On every test, from music encoding to photo editing to multitasking, the XPS One falls behind the iMac that costs $750 less. There’s no HD drive on the iMac, so its entertainment powers are limited to standard-def audio and video, but it’s also reasonable to expect from any all-in-one that it also perform well as a computer… It’s just not as fast as its significantly less expensive competition,” Brown reports.

Re: Dell vomits up the XPS One, "iMac Killer"

[quote author=“DawnTreader”][quote author=“Tommo_UK”]Why would anyone even consider this POS?

It reminds me of the…80’s. It’s about 20 years late on design. 

Yup, Michael Knight might have used one of these when not  talking to his watch or pressing the turbo-boost button.

Someone one day soon will figure out how to design an all-in-one that actually looks nice. Sorry to break your Apple hearts, but the imac is ugly to. Made my mind up for me to get the Macbookpro over the imac. The bottom of the imac just looks awful. With the obvious appeal of the all-in-one’s, the industry through competition will bring to market something the consumer will buy in mass. Speaker technology has advanced dramatically, it must still not be cost effective to use the latest tech.