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Get it while you can. A new coupon is available which cuts the original $1,599 price of Dell’s XPS One (PRODUCT) RED to just $1,199. That’s $100 less than the entry level XPS One. Now, let’s race to see who can void the offer faster ’cause this is one hell of a deal. Instructions after the break. Ready… go!

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Back in October of last year, we all wondered just what impact Dell’s leaked XPS One would really have on the all-in-one PC, nay, computer market, and truth be told, we’re still waiting for something definitive. Sure, the first press shots were emanating with all kinds of sexy (for a Dell), and this thing was teased more than any single hunk of plastic and metal ever should be, but it still maintained a certain aura that kept people anxious for release day. Shortly after going on sale in mid-November, reviewers from all walks of life managed to fall innocently in love with Round Rock’s latest, but as with most other XPS machines, we’re fairly certain the discerning crowd that this piece is aimed at will find plenty of reasons to nitpick room for improvement.

If you were given a round-trip ticket to Texas with keys to the XPS One’s design laboratory, what would be your first (and second, and third…) order of business? Are you honestly satisfied with the graphics performance? Is the built-in display that you’re now stuck with up to snuff? Does it really look as good in your humble abode as it did in a classy New York City furniture store? Of course, we fully understand that Dell must have done something right here for ole Walt to highly praise it, and while we’re sure the current incarnation of the One may suffice for many, we want to hear your vision of One.one. Shout it out below!

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The whole consumer motivation for (PRODUCT) RED is that a donation is made to those in need at no (obvious) additional expense to you. It’s The Man who makes the donation, you’re just pulling the trigger with the purchase of something presumably wanted anyway. But the (PRODUCT) RED XPS One confuses this whole system, at best. The RED XPS One costs an extra $300 over the regular XPS One’s base configuration. For that, you do get a bump — but it’s software only. More specifically, your $300 premium upgrades you to Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 (found online for ~$100 or less) and Vista Ultimate (~$300 or less), instead of stock Microsoft Works 8.5 (~$15) and Vista Home Premium (~$200 or less).

Based on those retail prices, you’re locked into almost $200 in add-ons that Dell and Microsoft will happily mark-up to $300 — $80 of which is donated to the Global Fund. Never you mind that the full-featured Vista Ultimate (even with RED-themed desktops, screensaver, and widgets) adds very little value to the vast majority of home users when compared to Vista Home Premium. Or that Microsoft says that “Vista Home Premium is the preferred edition for home desktops.” So why bother with Ultimate on the XPS One in the first place, except to up the perception of greater value? It’s not like this all-in-one desktop will ever step foot inside of an enterprise cubicle. Our advice: save your $300 and just give some cash directly, it might work out better for your taxes anyway.

[Thanks, Justin M.]

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var digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/hardware/Dell_s_XPS_One_PRODUCT_RED_a_charitable_rip_off’; The whole consumer motivation for (PRODUCT) RED is that a donation is made to those in need at no (obvious) additional expense to you. It’s The Man who makes the donation, you’re just pulling the trigger with the purchase of something presumably wanted anyway. But the (PRODUCT) RED XPS One confuses this whole system, at best. The RED XPS One costs an extra $300 over the regular XPS One’s base configuration. For that, you do get a bump — but it’s software only. More specifically, your $300 premium upgrades you to Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 (found online for ~$100 or less) and Vista Ultimate (~$300 or less), instead of stock Microsoft Works 8.5 (~$15) and Vista Home Premium (~$200 or less).

Based on those retail prices, you’re locked into almost $200 in add-ons that Dell and Microsoft will happily mark-up to $300 — $80 of which is donated to the Global Fund. Never you mind that the full-featured Vista Ultimate (even with RED-themed desktops, screensaver, and widgets) adds very little value to the vast majority of home users when compared to Vista Home Premium. Or that Microsoft says that “Vista Home Premium is the preferred edition for home desktops.” So why bother with Ultimate on the XPS One in the first place, except to up the perception of greater value? It’s not like this all-in-one desktop will ever step foot inside of an enterprise cubicle. Our advice: save your $300 and just give some cash directly, it might work out better for your taxes anyway.

[Thanks, Justin M.]

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Confirmed details are scant, but Microsoft’s Nick White over at the official Windows Vista blog says that Windows and Dell with introduce (PRODUCT) RED “products” later this week. Rumor has it that Dell will ship an XPS One all-in-one, XPS M1330 and XPS 1530 laptops (already available in plain ol’ red), and even a Dell 948 AIO printer in fancy RED editions. Besides the paint, the PCs will feature a special edition of Vista Ultimate with — you guessed it — a RED-themed desktop and sidebar gadgets. Perhaps best of all, Dell and Microsoft will donate $80 from the purchase of a RED XPS One, $50 from each RED laptop, and $5 from each printer directly to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa at no additional cost to you. However, let’s wait for the official details before the back patting gets out of control.

[Via istartedsomething, thanks Long Z.]

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Turns out PC Mag wasn’t the only one fairly impressed by Dell’s entry into the all-in-one desktop arena, Unkie Walt is officially a fan, and while he won’t be giving up his iMac anytime soon, he had some warm things to say about the computer and Dell’s design direction in general. In fact, as far as actual hardware goes, Walt found plenty of things he likes better about the XPS One than Apple’s iMac, like the built-in memory card slots, TV tuner, back-lit touch controls and standard wireless keyboard and mouse. Still, Dell’s base configuration loses out on power and price to the iMac, and Mossberg still recommends Leopard over Vista, but this seems to be Dell at the top of the heap when it comes to PC all-in-ones — and a far sight ahead of the Mossberg-panned Gateway One.

[Thanks, webon]

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The lovely crew at Dell invited us to come down to Armani Casa in NYC and enjoy a glass of champagne while we fondled the company’s new iMac competitor, the XPS One. Unfortunately, Armani Casa specializes in the kind of low, moody lighting that entices you to buy a $10,000 sofa, not snap photos of a new computer — but far be it from us to tell them how to light their store. Despite the challenges of exposures and ISOs, you can still sit back and attempt to enjoy these grainy, lowly-lit photos — just don’t blame us if your eyes start to hurt.

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PC Mag has reviewed the Dell XPS One, the machine which we originally revealed on these here pages. The unit they got their hands on was the top-end $2,399 model — what, you think Dell would risk lumping ‘em with the budget range? — and the overall impression was very good if you limit yourself to the praise of the PC’s numerous features. A built-in HDTV tuner with remote, Blu-ray, and 802.11n round out the 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, and 500GB HDD. The reviewer also thought that the design was a strong aspect of the XPS One, matching the iMac for aesthetics and minimalism. From there it’s downhill: the Radeon 2400 HD graphics card is crap for gaming, and the unit as a whole isn’t price competitive thanks to the 20-inch 1680×1050 screen. Will you wait for the 24-inch model?

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Shortly after being leaked, revealed, unclothed and paraded around in public, Dell’s 20-inch XPS ONE is finally available to the masses. Up now on company’s webstore are four pre-configured systems, with the high-ender rocking a Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 processor, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, Bluetooth 2.0, an 8-in-1 multicard reader, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, 256MB ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO graphics set, and a 500GB 7,200 RPM SATA hard drive. Additionally, you can snag a built-in Blu-ray burner and a hybrid analog / digital TV tuner to keep the TV / film buffs happy, but expect to throw down between $1,499 and $2,399 depending on options.

[Thanks, Joshua]

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Dell fans, we’ve got some juicy meat for you to sink your teeth into. During Michael Dell’s keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld today, the company unleashed (or at least demoed) its forthcoming all-in-one PC, creatively named the XPS One. Of course, we’ve been hearing rumblings about the One for some time now, but Dell also whipped out its sparkly new Latitude XT tablet, which should please all the Gatesian types out there who think TPCs are the future. But wait — there’s more! The new Latitude isn’t just some plain-jane scratchpad. Besides being the thinnest in its 12.1-inch, convertible category, and having a screen which is 25-percent brighter than the competition… it’s multi-touch. At the keynote, the Dell folks demonstrated a multiple-finger paint program, which lets you draw five simultaneous lines, and also showcased a Surface-like photo viewer which allows you to scramble, resize, and generally get physical with your fond memories. Check the pictures of the tablet in action after the break and feel its magical vibes.

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Considering we’ve already seen Dell’s XPS One from every possible angle — including flayed open — you’d think that the marketing folks at Dell would have just given up by now, but the company’s just updated that XPS One preview site with a super-dramatic teaser video featuring the new tagline “Welcome Beautiful.” More importantly, the video also features a launch date: November 19th. Of course, by then we’ll have probably already purchased, hacked, upgraded and sold a half dozen of these things, but we promise to still pretend to be surprised.

[Thanks, James]

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Dell’s XPS One — by now you know just about all there is, right? Well, did you know that the XPS One and A2010 are one and the same? According to details provided to us by our trusted insider, we now know that entire rear cover slides off with the simple removal of a pair of under-mounted screws. Unusual for all-in-one PCs this sleek. That gives enthusiasts easy access to the 3.5-inch SATA disk, optical disc drive, discrete graphics card, and 2x DIMM slots for memory upgrades. There’s also a fair bit of polish with nine touch-capacitive media buttons (volume, play/pause, FF, etc.) along the right-side bezel which remain illuminated indefinitely when sensing (via proximity sensor) the presence of your fingers. The buttons automatically dim as you move away. The optical drive displays a blue arc outlining an inserted disc but does not offer any type of manual, forced eject — a Dell field service call is required to remove any stuck media (gulp). Complete specs after the break, all sorts of sexy in the gallery.

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We’re not sure what suspense there is left to build around the XPS One — we’ve already seen it naked before the harsh light of the FCC — but Dell’s not ready to let the magic die, and has posted a teaser slide for its new all-in-one up on Dell.com. Apparently the machine is “The end of the PC as you know it,” which is definitely news to us, but hey, maybe we’ve known a lot of PCs. No more info than that, but interested parties can punch in their email addresses to receive info like ship dates…oh, we have those too. Damn. Well, it’s a pretty picture, at least.

[Thanks, Joshua]

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You probably remember the unannounced Dell XPS One we brought you the other day, and now we’ve received more info indicating that this media-centric all-in-one will launch “mid November.” Unfortunately there was no price associated with this supposed release window, but the document we saw did reveal several more specs, most notably the existence of “proximity sensors” and relatively-high two megapixel resolution of the webcam. That’s all for now; enjoy the new pic.

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You all laugh at us for religiously trawling the FCC site during our rare free moments, and yet every once in awhile those countless hours of tedium pay off big time: meet Dell’s unannounced all-in-one XPS One. What we’re seeing here is a 22-inch WSXGA (1,680 x 1,050) display flanked by stereo speakers (with media buttons running up one side), topped off by a webcam, and featuring a slot-loading Blu-ray burner along the right bezel. On the inside we’ve got a number of processor options from Intel (the FCC test unit had a 2.66GHz E6750 Core 2 Duo), integrated or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 graphics, up to 4GB of RAM, four-flavor WiFi plus Bluetooth, and the usual slew of connectors including S/PDIF and a proprietary port for an optional breakout TV dongle. Input comes via the included wireless mouse and keyboard, and Dell’s also loaded up a memory card reader, making for quite the capable multimedia PC. We’d expect this desktop to be priced well above the recent Gateway model with which it shares a moniker — which isn’t such a big deal, really, as $2,000+ price tags have never really stopped XPS customers before. For all the angles, make sure to hit up the gallery below…

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