is an all-in-one computer really an allinone if you have to plug in an army
of peripherals with wire snaking all over the place well the Dell XPS 27
promises to knock at least some of the Clutter off your table with its
apparently audio file grade 10 speaker
sound system well I like the sound of
that but can it deliver on the hype
let's find out
the master keys Pro keyboard lineup from Cooler Master is available in three
sizes each in white or RGB flavors check
them out at the link below only a single cable is required to
run the XPS 27 everything but the mouse
and keyboard including the power supply is contained inside its sharp profession
form factor and this thing is pretty darn sexy especially from the front and
it feels pretty good too thanks to its Hefty aluminum construction The Touch
version is a whopping 372 lb but if
that's a little heavy for your tastes the non-touch version is 8 lb lighter
though it lacks this really cool articulating ARM that allows the display
to go from 5° down all the way to completely flat something even the
Microsoft Surface Studio does not do we
do need to be careful about comparing this to the surface Studio though
because Dell positions the canvas monitor as their Studio killer but since
we're at it it should be noted that the XPS 27 screen takes considerably more
Force to adjust than the studio on the
right you'll find the power button along with a USB 3 port with Power share and
on the left we have a welcome SD card slot and a headphone jack above the 27
in screen is a four microphone array that allows you to summon Cortana from
up to 15 ft away then below it a 720p
infrared camera and two infrared emitters for Windows hello and the XPS
27's claim to fame the 10 speaker sound
system which I will explain more about after I show you the rest of the I/O
which uh hold on I'll get
it okay yeah unfortunately getting at
the little K that contains the rest of the plugs
requires the reach around technique and some clumsy fumbling but once you get in
there you'll find that your shiny new aiio is fairly well endowed it's got
gigabit Ethernet DisplayPort out and HDMI out two Thunderbolt 3 USB type-c
ports audio line out and four USB 3
ports plus a bonus USB hidden below this
removable panel panel the perfect spot for the dongle for the surprisingly
excellent included wireless keyboard that even features high-end Multi-Device
functionality and the strikingly mediocre Mouse this is also the place
where you'll find the only two screws holding the back cover on and then the
three more that reveal the motherboard making this machine shockingly easy to
upgrade not that we would want to the
base model priced at 13.49 has a COR I5
6400 processor with onboard Graphics but
most models are equipped with a core i7 6700 with either AMD R9 m470x or M 485x
Graphics our 16 gig skew has two slots
available allowing for an easy upgrade path to 32 gigs and a total of three
storage Bays one m.2 NVMe with its own
freaking fan which is great for preventing thermal throttling and two 2
and 1/2 in for additional ssds or hard drives so that's pretty cool and so are
The Thermals we taxed the FPU at the
same time as running the fuzzy donut of death and although it did reach the
point where it sounded like it was ready for lift off the CPU leveled off at 85°
C and never throttled I feel pretty good
about Dell's thermal solution here bottom line then the XPS 27's
performance is suitable for 4K media cons assumption assuming no DRM
restrictions that require a 7th Gen processor and even photo and video
editing and creation which the 3840 X
2160 4K IPS display will handle nicely
It suffers from Best Buy TV syndrome a little bit out of the box with
overcooked Reds and some somewhat of a green cast on the whites and Grays but
with calibration this display could easily be used by professional photo
editors it's available in both touchscreen and non-touchscreen flavors
and boasts wide viewing angles a brightness of 300 plus nits and over a
billion colors and the boasting is Justified this is a very good display it
covers 99.95% of the Adobe RGB color space with
spot-on color temperature and Gamma out of the box and one of the best contrast
ratios we've ever tested which makes it
especially tragic that Dell neglected to
include an HDMI input so if you were
hoping to get some more mileage out of your XPS 207 as a monitor once the
computer hardware is obsolete you will be sorely disappointed which I guess
leads us perfectly into our next topic if you're going to put a dedicated
graphics card in it we're going to run some games our unit with the AMD m470x
and 4 gigs of gddr5 had DSX mankind
divided running at 3 2 FPS on low with rise of the Tomb Raider averaging 48 FPS
on low and 38 on medium but it should be noted that that's at 1080p one quar of
the screen's resolution both games were absolute slideshows when we tried them
at 4K but in Dell's defense they never told
us that this thing was built for gaming Dell is emphasizing that every single
person who buys one of these is getting the utmost in both display and audio
quality a first in the AIO category
that's dominated by the iMac a computer with its FaceTime microphone on the back
so how does it sound actually pretty freaking decent
it's got good articulation with clear highs and the width of the Soundbar
gives it a noticeable stereo effect it's
not perfect I'm not sure if the marketing accounts for the drop off in
sound quality when it nears full volume and the B is present but obviously not
nearly as low as could be achieved with a separate subwoofer but that doesn't
mean we weren't really really impressed
the speakers are great for rocking out while you work watching movies or even
providing background music when you have a few people
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