If any of you didn't here, Dell revealed the XPS 700 about three days ago. This thing is showing some huge changes from the XPS 600 including hardware/software options, and even a new look which for once with dell, CAN effect the price.
Assuming we choose the "Hard Core Gaming"
hyeah: setup with the red case (+$100), here is what DELL offers us:
CPU: Anything from a P4 at 3.8 Ghz to the newly offered
Pentium® 965 Extreme Edition w/ Dual Core Tech (3.73GHz, 4MB Cache)
Physical Memory: 4G of Ram
Hard drive: An insane 1.5 Terabytes (1x 1T + 1x 500G):clap:
"Video Card: Dell has made some radical changes, including finally getting off only Nvidea and offering the fairly new: 512MB ATI Radeon X1900 XTX
Thou if you want to spend another $1000 you can still juice this thing up with the: Dual 1GB NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 Dual-GPU Graphics Cards, Quad SLI
DELL also is offering the: "AGEIA® PhysX® physics accelerator", though for $250 and almost no games using it yet i would recommend (and apparently so does DELL after chatting with one of their XPS tech guys) to wait for the price on the PhysX card to go down.
Keyboards: AS in the XPS 600 DELL offers their keyboards and keyboards from Saitek ($44) and LOGITECH ($80)
Mouse: The same as before DELL offers the newer versions of the RAZOR and LOGITECH mice along with its own
Sound: For once, DELL doesn't even give you a choice on this one. If you buy an XPS 700, you sign yourself to buying with it the:
"Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeMusic (D), w/Dolby® Digital 5.1" sound card.
Speakers: Wow, Anything from DELL's 2.1 ($30) to LOGITECH 5.1 sorround sound ($359)
Then DELL has all those modem things if you want any of that crap...
Software: You can now get the option "No-preinstalled software". Most of you might thing that would be just making you do some stuff and wasting time but if any of you have a DELL, you know they put all that wild tangent software and all of that other "clog-ware" on your computer slowing it down.
Security: Finally DELL is also offering: PC-cillin Internet Security with AntiVirus and Spyware. I have read many reviews stating that this program works just as well as Norton but is cheaper and more user friendly.
And then of corse there is all that other stuff from DELL. I don't know about you, but even though this is a great computer, i think i am going to wait for two things to come out first before i get a new computer:
1. Windows Vista (Doesn't matter much but i don't want to pay for XP and then have to change to Vista 6 months later for another $200)
2. The long awaited and anticipated Intel 1207 pin socket along with the Core 2 Duo Prossesor (aka Conroe).
Either way i'm glad:hap2: to see DELL taking up new technologies quicker, and offering a wider variety of products (though still a bit pricey).
EDIT: Assuming you buy all the expensive stuff (not including $350 speakers and the 30in screen and software), this baby is going to cost you upwards of $6,000. Assuming you get the dual prossesor, the dual 512 gfx cards, no software, and the 20in screen instead of the 24in along with 2g instead of 4g ram and 360G hard drive this will cost you about $4300. But expect to be spending at LEAST $3,000 if you buy one of these in any usefull configuration today. (advise: wait for prices to drop)
For any fo you loosers who want to know how much an XPS 700 with ALL and i mean ALL the extra crap can cost, the total highest price you could get on a DELL XPS 700 is $51,585
Assuming we choose the "Hard Core Gaming"
hyeah: setup with the red case (+$100), here is what DELL offers us:CPU: Anything from a P4 at 3.8 Ghz to the newly offered
Pentium® 965 Extreme Edition w/ Dual Core Tech (3.73GHz, 4MB Cache)
Physical Memory: 4G of Ram
Hard drive: An insane 1.5 Terabytes (1x 1T + 1x 500G):clap:
"Video Card: Dell has made some radical changes, including finally getting off only Nvidea and offering the fairly new: 512MB ATI Radeon X1900 XTX
Thou if you want to spend another $1000 you can still juice this thing up with the: Dual 1GB NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 Dual-GPU Graphics Cards, Quad SLI
DELL also is offering the: "AGEIA® PhysX® physics accelerator", though for $250 and almost no games using it yet i would recommend (and apparently so does DELL after chatting with one of their XPS tech guys) to wait for the price on the PhysX card to go down.
Keyboards: AS in the XPS 600 DELL offers their keyboards and keyboards from Saitek ($44) and LOGITECH ($80)
Mouse: The same as before DELL offers the newer versions of the RAZOR and LOGITECH mice along with its own
Sound: For once, DELL doesn't even give you a choice on this one. If you buy an XPS 700, you sign yourself to buying with it the:
"Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeMusic (D), w/Dolby® Digital 5.1" sound card.
Speakers: Wow, Anything from DELL's 2.1 ($30) to LOGITECH 5.1 sorround sound ($359)
Then DELL has all those modem things if you want any of that crap...
Software: You can now get the option "No-preinstalled software". Most of you might thing that would be just making you do some stuff and wasting time but if any of you have a DELL, you know they put all that wild tangent software and all of that other "clog-ware" on your computer slowing it down.
Security: Finally DELL is also offering: PC-cillin Internet Security with AntiVirus and Spyware. I have read many reviews stating that this program works just as well as Norton but is cheaper and more user friendly.
And then of corse there is all that other stuff from DELL. I don't know about you, but even though this is a great computer, i think i am going to wait for two things to come out first before i get a new computer:
1. Windows Vista (Doesn't matter much but i don't want to pay for XP and then have to change to Vista 6 months later for another $200)
2. The long awaited and anticipated Intel 1207 pin socket along with the Core 2 Duo Prossesor (aka Conroe).
Either way i'm glad:hap2: to see DELL taking up new technologies quicker, and offering a wider variety of products (though still a bit pricey).
EDIT: Assuming you buy all the expensive stuff (not including $350 speakers and the 30in screen and software), this baby is going to cost you upwards of $6,000. Assuming you get the dual prossesor, the dual 512 gfx cards, no software, and the 20in screen instead of the 24in along with 2g instead of 4g ram and 360G hard drive this will cost you about $4300. But expect to be spending at LEAST $3,000 if you buy one of these in any usefull configuration today. (advise: wait for prices to drop)
For any fo you loosers who want to know how much an XPS 700 with ALL and i mean ALL the extra crap can cost, the total highest price you could get on a DELL XPS 700 is $51,585