Dell shows off a Premium 27 inch All In One with 10 speakers! (Not Clickbait)

[AlTech]

At CES 2017, DELL has shown off their new XPS 27 which has a whole boat load of cool specs including 10 speakers. Don't ask me why an ALL in One Should have 10 speakers. I think it's a little crazy .

 

Image (Courtesy of WindowsCentral):

 

Details on the speaker setup:

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• Two tweeters produce clean high notes and crystal clear voices with lively, yet accurate stereo imaging.
• Four full range drivers provide a powerful punch and clear, accurate midrange.
• Two passive radiators reinforce the lows, packing the rich, full sound of a larger speaker into the sleek built-in design and provide deep bass.
• An additional pair of independent, down-firing full range speakers are tuned to work in conjunction with the stereo drivers to fill the room with sound.
• Dynamic amplifiers sense the power used by the driver to adapt known speaker modeling parameters to the content being played and avoid excursions.

 

Specs:

• Intel core i5-6400 or Intel core i7-6700
• 27 inch 3840x2160 (Different SKUs have different screen types)
• 8GB, 16GB or 32GB DDR4-3200
• Intel HD 530 Graphics and/or AMD Radeon R9 M470X with 2GB GDDR5 (This really sucks! It's a rebadged GPU from 2013 *1) or AMD Radeon R9 M485X  with 4GB GDDR5 (This is kind of decent and it's based on Tonga from 2015 *1)
• 1TB SATA HDD all the way up to 1TB PCI-E M.2 SSD
• Either 802.11a/b/n/ac Wi-Fi or 802.11a/b/n/ac 2x2
• 720p Webcam with Windows Hello Support *2
• Loads of ports: USB 3.0 with PowerShare, SD-card reader (SD, SDHC, SDXC, MMC), audio jack, USB 3.0 (4), HDMI-out (1), DisplayPort 1.2 (1), Thunderbolt 3 (supporting Type-C, DisplayPort, USB3.1, PS) (2), Gigabit Ethernet, audio out (1)
• Internal 360w Power Supply
• 10x Speakers capable of 50 watts per channel

 

Obligatory Quote goes here:

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The choice for 6th Gen Intel chips is no big deal as Kaby Lake on the desktop brings nothing to the table, but the choice of AMD over NVidia is a bit odd. For performance, you're talking an equivalent roughly to the NVidia GeForce 970 compared to the AMD Radeon R9 M485X. That does bring some GPU power, but the XPS 27 is still far from being anything like a gaming laptop.

 

Thoughts and Opinions:

This is a really bad Spec Sheet. You probably shouldn't buy this  LMAO!!!

 

*1 According to Wikipedia.org on January 8th 2017

*2 Requires Windows 10 OS for functionality

 

Sources:

http://www.windowscentral.com/dell-xps-27-2017

http://www.windowscentral.com/dells-xps-27-all-one-has-10-speakers-some-reason

[Monkey Dust]

Not aimed at the likes of us...

Then again who is it aimed at? Who buy all in ones regardless of speaker count?

[Tieox]

Everyone can smell the blood in the water from Apple.

[AlTech]

1 minute ago, Monkey Dust said:

Not aimed at the likes of us...

Then again who is it aimed at? \

Allegedly content creators. I say allegedly cos there's a lot of shit which doesn't make sense including the fact that they chose Bonaire and Tonga (respectively) instead of using the Polaris based RX 460 for notebooks and 470 for Notebooks

1 minute ago, Monkey Dust said:

Who buy all in ones regardless of speaker count?

Everybody who buys all in ones.

 

I know what you meant to say and the answer to that would be nobody.

 

[captain cactus]

With the TDP of that M485X I don't see a reason why they didn't go for an RX470/480/GTX1050Ti/1060 and get a big performance boost over what they have in there now.

[Tech_Dreamer]

oh i get it , Like a TV.. oh wait

[AlTech]

1 minute ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

With the TDP of that M485X I don't see a reason why they didn't go for an RX470/480/GTX1050Ti/1060 and get a big performance boost over what they have in there now.

I do.

 

The M485X is a 100w TDP part. Fair enough, they could have used the RX 470 for notebooks since it also has a TDP of 100w.

 

There is no notebook version of the RX 480. The GTX 1050Ti for Notebooks is probably not having great yields and the GTX 1060's TDP is too high.

[SeraphicWings]

This would have make a great computer for internet TV and streaming service

 

But then again, it's going to cost well around $1500 to $2000, I'd rather buy a Chromecast and spend the rest on a decent monitor and a decent setup if I want to imitate this to watch internet TV

[captain cactus]

47 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

I do.

 

The M485X is a 100w TDP part. Fair enough, they could have used the RX 470 for notebooks since it also has a TDP of 100w.

 

There is no notebook version of the RX 480. The GTX 1050Ti for Notebooks is probably not having great yields and the GTX 1060's TDP is too high.

Recent RX480s are also pulling less than 100W (sometimes 90W) at stock clocks (better yields and fine-tuned manufacturing process) compared to the earlier RX480s. An RX470 would definitely be possible, but an RX480 wouldn't be impossible either.

 

I mean, Dell themselves put an RX470 in their own Alienware 15 and 17 which are notebooks. This is a dekstop. It shouldn't have problems handling an RX470 (unless they went the Apple way of making their dekstop AIO thinner).

 

[AlTech]

2 minutes ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

Recent RX480s are also pulling less than 100W (sometimes 90W) at stock clocks (better yields and fine-tuned manufacturing process) compared to the earlier RX480s. An RX470 would definitely be possible, but an RX480 wouldn't be impossible either.

 

I mean, Dell themselves put an RX470 in their own Alienware 15 and 17 which are notebooks.

But they used RX 470 for notebooks......

2 minutes ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

This is a dekstop. It shouldn't have problems handling an RX470 (unless they went the Apple way of making their dekstop AIO thinner).

 

Almost all AIOs have a bad habit of being like Apple and trying too hard to be thin. As a result, they are forced into using Mobile GPUs to compensate.

[Prysin]

what a utterly pointless product!

[VerticalDiscussions]

DELL is one crazy innovator in terms of display features !

[Mr.Meerkat]

1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

This really sucks! It's a rebadged GPU from 2013

What's wrong with the 260X? It still has the perf close to a 750ti where it's perfectly fine for 1080p low-med gaming  (although a RX460 would have been more ideal)

 

 

[leadeater]

11 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Almost all AIOs have a bad habit of being like Apple and trying too hard to be thin. As a result, they are forced into using Mobile GPUs to compensate.

Still thicker than most laptops though. Also it's Dell, I'm sure they could figure out a way to get an RX480 in there if they wanted to, heck even two. I think it was more a case of not wanting to and not seeing a need to, not designed for gaming. But like everyone else, who the heck is this for?!?

 

Not really a business computer, re speakers. Barely good enough for content creators, colour correct screen but wrong CPU options and bad GPU options.

 

Looking at the source articles this is clearly trying to compete with the Surface Studio, pictures make that clear. But it's horrid in comparison to the Surface Studio, all the same flaws in a worse looking package.

 

Edit:

Product designed by a committee marketers and finance executives, can't not compete with another product so just throw something together. Would love to hear the opinions of the design engineers who had to make this thing lol.

[Dabombinable]

1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

At CES 2017, DELL has shown off their new XPS 27 which has a whole boat load of cool specs including 10 speakers. Don't ask me why an ALL in One Should have 10 speakers. I think it's a little crazy .

 

Image (Courtesy of WindowsCentral):

 

Details on the speaker setup:

 

Specs:

• Intel core i5-6400 or Intel core i7-6700
• 27 inch 3840x2160 (Different SKUs have different screen types)
• 8GB, 16GB or 32GB DDR4-3200
• Intel HD 530 Graphics and/or AMD Radeon R9 M470X with 2GB GDDR5 (This really sucks! It's a rebadged GPU from 2013 *1) or AMD Radeon R9 M485X  with 4GB GDDR5 (This is kind of decent and it's based on Tonga from 2015 *1)
• 1TB SATA HDD all the way up to 1TB PCI-E M.2 SSD
• Either 802.11a/b/n/ac Wi-Fi or 802.11a/b/n/ac 2x2
• 720p Webcam with Windows Hello Support *2
• Loads of ports: USB 3.0 with PowerShare, SD-card reader (SD, SDHC, SDXC, MMC), audio jack, USB 3.0 (4), HDMI-out (1), DisplayPort 1.2 (1), Thunderbolt 3 (supporting Type-C, DisplayPort, USB3.1, PS) (2), Gigabit Ethernet, audio out (1)
• Internal 360w Power Supply
• 10x Speakers capable of 50 watts per channel

 

Obligatory Quote goes here:

 

Thoughts and Opinions:

This is a really bad Spec Sheet. You probably shouldn't buy this  LMAO!!!

 

*1 According to Wikipedia.org on January 8th 2017

*2 Requires Windows 10 OS for functionality

 

Sources:

http://www.windowscentral.com/dell-xps-27-2017

http://www.windowscentral.com/dells-xps-27-all-one-has-10-speakers-some-reason

Here you go for the GPU:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-R9-M470X.166342.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-R9-M485X.166335.0.html

 

People wonder why AMD mobile GPU are rare....

 

[AlTech]

25 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Here you go for the GPU:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-R9-M470X.166342.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-R9-M485X.166335.0.html

 

People wonder why AMD mobile GPU are rare....

 

They could have used RX 460 for notebooks or RX 470 for notebooks...........

[Dabombinable]

23 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

They could have used RX 460 for notebooks or RX 470 for notebooks...........

Especially with the sub 75W power consumption of the RX 460 compared to the R9 M485X. Though the cooling would have to be beefed up a bit for the RX 470 since it does draw a bit more power (with of course better efficiency).

[captain cactus]

26 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Especially with the sub 75W power consumption of the RX 460 compared to the R9 M485X. Though the cooling would have to be beefed up a bit for the RX 470 since it does draw a bit more power (with of course better efficiency).

The RX460 is a good deal slower than the M485X though. As you said yourself, an RX470 would've been a way better option.

[sazrocks]

"10 speakers"

 

 

[Sauron]

6 hours ago, Monkey Dust said:

Not aimed at the likes of us...

Then again who is it aimed at? Who buy all in ones regardless of speaker count?

Well, iMacs have a market and many of them have even worse specs than this so I guess someone could be interested. Not me, for sure.

[Misanthrope]

6 hours ago, Monkey Dust said:

Then again who is it aimed at? Who buy all in ones regardless of speaker count?

Clueless parents who think "Damn Apple and their prices, but look at this one it looks fairly similar. Huh? 1000 less? Why not he wanted a computer he's getting a computer"

[Arri]

Less is often times more. 

[KE2012]

Anyone else think it looks god dam awful?

[iamdarkyoshi]

It is clickbait on the home page...

 

I read pentium 2

 

 

[RexinOridle]

Kind of looks like 3 boobs on each side. May turn someone on.