Dell’s XPS One 27 takes on the iMac with Ivy Bridge CPU, stylish looks and keener price

Dell's XPS One 27 takes on the iMac with Ivy Bridge CPU, stylish looks and keener price

Looking to go head to head with Apple’s hugely successful iMac machines is the Dell XPS One 27, a rather stylish looking device available at a keen price.

Dell's XPS One 27 takes on the iMac with Ivy Bridge CPU, stylish looks and keener price

Packing a 27-inch widescreen display supporting a generous  2,560 x 1,440 pixels , the XPS One packs in all the same tech goodness as the iMac, with a wireless keyboard and mouse, smart metallic finish and a slot-loading disc drive (with the option to upgrade to Blu-ray – something that Apple can’t match).

Inside beats Intel’s third-generation Ivy Bridge CPU in Core i5 or i7 flavours, with the choice to upgrade to a Nvidia graphics (GeForce GT 640M) card for extra whizz-bang in the pixel pushing department.

Dell's XPS One 27 takes on the iMac with Ivy Bridge CPU, stylish looks and keener price

The all-in-one Windows 7 machine comes with 4GB of RAM standard, upgradable to a fairly hefty 16GB, with storage starting at 1TB, and rising up to 2TB). For real speed demons, a 32GB solid-state disk (SSD) can be installed for faster boot-ups.

All the connectivity boxes are ticked too, with the XPS One supporting four USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0, an HDMI input and output and a media card reader slot, with Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi (N) coming as standard.

Dell's XPS One 27 takes on the iMac with Ivy Bridge CPU, stylish looks and keener price

The Dell XPS 27 is set to go on sale for $1,399, comfortably cheaper than the 27-inch iMac, which starts at $1,699, although an expected Apple update to the range may see their specs outgun the Dell.

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