Dell's New X18: 5 Pounds, 18 Inches 138
MojoKid writes "Dell recently combined two trending PC design styles into a single system and called it the XPS 18 Portable All-In-One Desktop. The machine has all the power of an AIO desktop system and some of the portability of a tablet. To be clear, Dell isn't suggesting you'll want to tote this thing across town in ways that you might use an iPad. It's portable in that you can snatch up the 18.4-inch Full HD display from your home office and take it to the living room to switch gears from Google Docs to gaming with the kids, or take it upstairs for some late night surfing before bed. ... The main attraction, however, is that the PC itself is a portable display featuring an 18.4-inch IPS panel with a 1920x1080 resolution and full touch support. Performance-wise the XPS 18 holds its own versus mainstream all-in-one touch PCs, but with added ability to pick the 5 pound system up go virtually anywhere with it on a moment's notice."
Am I missing something? (Score:5, Insightful)
This seems to be a mediocre, unnecessarily page-broken review of a machine with mediocre hardware specs. Did I miss anything important?
Throw away screen. (Score:5, Insightful)
I've always thought it was a bad idea to build the computer into the screen. The problem is that when the computer becomes outdated, you have to dump a perfectly good screen. I have LCD screens that I've used for many years with different computers as I upgrade the hardware.
Re:This looks horrible (Score:2, Insightful)
A weak dual core CPU that's more power hungry than an ARM CPU, a battery that'll last an hour in real-life conditions within a year, a weight that makes it a pain to lug around, a size that makes hand holding it or carrying it anywhere a joke -- despite having lower resolution than an iPad or a Google Nexus 10, a small 32GB SSD that'll be more than half filled by Windows 8 which nobody wants of, a flimsy to stand it at an angle that'll break and can't be replaced. And again, you're stuck with Windows 8 which is far worse than even Vista.
This high end dual core computer with 8GB of RAM and an integrated GPU, or roughly the same specs as the Core 2 Duo computer you bought 5 years ago (but can't be upgraded), can be yours for only $1350! Enjoy your blocky fisher price interface!
This should sell almost as well as the Surface did.
Re:Throw away screen. (Score:4, Insightful)
That's one side. The other side is of the traditional separate component PC is the tangle of cables cascading down the back of the desk onto the floor, which typically doesn't get touched by anyone who vacuums, resulting in a long standing pile of detritus and dust.
It also means you can't easily pick the computer up and take it to another room, or put it in the car to take to another place, when you want.
And finally reusing a screen means you don't get the benefit of the latest screen sizes or resolutions.
Swings and roundabouts. You pay your money and you take your choice.