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Dude, This New Dell Is Sweet

Desktop is 'elegant, handsome, and cleverly designed'

By Wesley Oliver, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 28, 2007 6:38 PM CST

(Newser) – The iMac’s latest challenger is coming from an unlikely source: Dell. The maker " long associated with boxy, boring machines" brings the buzz with its newest contender, the XPS One, raves the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg. The sleek desktop machine, he says, is “elegant, handsome, and cleverly designed," and “matches or exceeds the iMac in hardware design.”

The XPS One, priced from $1,499, boasts a 20-inch widescreen, wireless keyboard and mouse, Wi-Fi, and a built-in TV. But, Mossberg concedes, that isn’t enough to overthrow King iMac, which is cheaper and powered by a speedier operating system. Still, PC fans will be gratified by the stylish yet affordable desktop, the tech guru concludes.

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Despite the tremendous progress Dell has made with its new XPS One, the Wall Street Journal's Walter S. Mossberg still thinks the Apple iMac is the superior desktop computer. (AP Photo/Apple Inc.) (Associated Press)

Dell CEO Michael Dell smiles at Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco. The company's new XPS One is an "elegant, handsome, cleverly designed one-piece computer," says the Wall Street Journal's... (Associated Press)

The Dell XPS One evokes simplicity, featuring one cord for power, while any other connections are handled wirelessly right out of the box, including the wireless mouse and keyboard. (Photo (Associated Press)

US computer giant Dell employees introduce the all-in-one desktop PC 'XPS One' at a global launching in Tokyo, 19 November 2007. The 'XPS One' is equipped with Intel's Core2 Duo or celeron processor 20-inch... (Getty Images)

US computer giant Dell senior vice president Alex Gruzen introduces all-in-one desktop PC 'XPS One', at a global launching in Tokyo, 19 November 2007. The 'XPS One' is equipped with Intel's Core2 Duo... (Getty Images)

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