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All-in-Ones Finally Grow Up, With Fast Graphics, SSDs, and CPUs

Posted by timothy on from the ok-now-switch-graphics-cards dept.

MojoKid writes "Historically, all-in-one desktop systems like the iMac, HP's TouchSmart and similar designs that incorporate a full system on the backside of a monitor, haven't offered performance that was competitive to their full-sized desktop counterparts. Part of the reason is that many of these systems are comprised of low power notebook platform PC components inside thin chassis designs with minimal airflow. However, as mobile platforms have become more powerful, so has the all-in-one PC. Dell's recently launched XPS 27 Touch, with Intel's Haswell mobile processor and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M on board, is an example of a new breed of AIO hitting the market now. The system is based on a 27-inch panel with 2TB of storage, a 32GB SSD cache drive, 8GB of RAM and performance in the benchmarks that keeps pace with average midrange full-sized desktops. You can even game on the machine with frame rates at the panel's 1080p native resolution with medium to high image quality. It's almost like the all-in-one finally grew up."

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  1. What fud by Billly+Gates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The imac had decent specs for years.

    The fact is most pcs sold have value oriented junk as only workstations and alienware bother with nice components. Most enthusiasts and gamers build their systens as a result.

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    1. Re: What fud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      true, but as this post is obviously a dell commercial, truth doesn't matter too much

    2. Re:What fud by dfghjk · · Score: 5, Informative

      "fud" stands for "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt". It doesn't mean something you disagree with.

    3. Re:What fud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Case in point: It will cost you an arm and a leg, but you can spec out a 27" iMac as follows:

        3.4ghz quad-core i7 w/ Turbo to 3.9ghz
      32GB 1600mhz DDR3
      3TB "Fusion" drive (HDD/SSD hybrid)
      NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2GB GDDR5

      Some cursory googling suggests the 680MX is the higher performing GPU.

      Not to mention that the Mac isn't struck with 1080p. It has 2560 x 1440 at 27".

    4. Re:What fud by Khyber · · Score: 5, Informative

      Actually, not even close. The 680M, while supposedly on par performance with a 580 according to notebookcheck (the physical specs on the cards makes me seriously doubt that given the 680M has roughly double the core count and about 300 gflops higher theoretical performance than the desktop 580) is still quite a top-notch mobile GPU.

      Terribly crippled? Physically speaking, the 680M is just a typical desktop 670 chip with lower power consumption.

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    5. Re: What fud by tverbeek · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Considering that the iMacs have been far and away the best-selling AIOs on the market pretty much since the first iMac was introduced, calling it a "minor exception" seems like a bit of tunnel vision. While they've never been the cutting-edge powerhouses that the Power Mac/Mac Pro have usually been, the iMac line has always included configurations with very respectable "desktop-grade" specs, especially as of the dates when new models are released. (The current line-up is about a year old, which might explain why it seems so "last year".) I know plenty of visual-arts professionals who've used iMacs as their primary work machines for years, a phenomenon that has contributed to the persistent (but evidently incorrect) rumors that Apple was abandoning the Mac Pro line as superfluous.

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  2. Re:Usage Enforcer Time by OzPeter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing is "comprised of" anything else. The word you are looking for is composed. An computer comprises components. Components compose or "make up" a computer.

    If enough people misuse a word long enough, that becomes the new meaning.

    Oh, the irony!

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  3. Advertisement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I guess that lab full of 2 year old existing Dell AOIs we have running liquid dynamics simulation software with tons of RAM and high-end Core i7s is just my imagination. This is a Dell advertisement in disguise under the cover of linking to a third party review. Products like this come out every week, why aren't they here? They're just as relevant as this thing.

  4. Not a story. by redback · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is an advert.

  5. If I use the Disable Advertising button... by Nova+Express · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...will this "story" go away?

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