xps 15 review

www.drakescomputersprojectors.com The good: The Dell XPS 8300 offers a pleasing exterior, broad connectivity features, and a reasonably versatile configuration for a fair price. The bad: You can find PCs from other vendors that offer more performance and upgradability for less. The bottom line: The Dell XPS 8300 will serve mainstream users as a higher-end do-it-all machine, but gamers and performance enthusiasts will be better off looking elsewhere. Review: Dells XPS 8300 is the first mainstream system weve reviewed to feature Intels new second-generation (nee Sandy Bridge) Core i7 desktop CPUs. While that doesnt automatically translate to best-of-breed performance, Dell has wrapped a well-balanced, reasonably priced $1615 configuration around the new chip. We wouldnt recommend this system to dedicated gamers, nor is it the best deal for fast, affordable day-to-day performance. As a media-playing, mainstream-gaming general productivity system, however, the XPS 8300 offers a fair deal for performance-oriented generalists. Just know that for a few dollars more you can get a better-equipped, more … Expand full review Dells XPS 8300 is the first mainstream system weve reviewed to feature Intels new second-generation (nee Sandy Bridge) Core i7 desktop CPUs. While that doesnt automatically translate to best-of-breed performance, Dell has wrapped a well-balanced, reasonably priced $1615 configuration around the new chip. We wouldnt recommend this system to dedicated <b>…<b>