The Dell XPS One line of all-in-one PCs has added two new models, each with 24-inch screens (the other models have 20-inch screens) and 4GB of RAM, standard.

One starts at $1,699 and features a quad-core Intel Q8200 processor, Vista Home Premium, DVD burner, 4GB of RAM, 320GB SATA hard drive, integrated Intel GMA X4500HD graphics, and a SoundBlaster Audigy HD sound card.

The other starts at $1,999 and includes everything mentioned above except it’s got a 750GB SATA hard drive and a 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT video card.

A fascinating post in Dell Community support forums details the travails of a young man and is XPS m1530. It seems that his laptop is “crackling” and “sparking” when he touches it, suggesting a grounding issue. While we’ve all felt that weird “smoothness because we’re about to be electrocuted” feeling on laptops and even lamps, this sounds considerably more sinister.

When I connect the power supply my whole system tingles when I touch it and when someone touches me they can feel it too. When I remove the power supply and run off battery this stops.

The problem appears to be coming from the the brushed aluminium chasis.

Does anyone else have this problem?
Is this something to be worried about?

Apparently it’s the power supply but keep your eyes on this one in case someone brings to m1530s together and makes an arc welder.

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Move over Gateway One. Here comes another all-in-one computer with the same name, except this computer is made by a different company named Dell.

The XPS ONE starts at $1499 and features a 20-inch widescreen, Intel Core Duo 2 processor (E4500 or E6550 depending on the configuration), wireless mouse and keyboard, TV tuner and remote, 2GB of memory, Vista Home Premium, Adobe Elements Studio, and more.

All the aforementioned stuff is crammed into the device seen in the above photo, which should leave plenty of room on your desk for donuts, pills, and mechanical pencils.

XPS ONE [Dell] via [H]ardOCP via Engadget

Apparently, Dell is coming out with some ultra-portable Macbook killer that’s due out by year’s end blah blah blah, you know the deal. What matters are the specs and unique features, because if this Dell XPS M1530 doesn’t pack anything worthwhile, it has no chance of overtaking Apple’s Macbook in terms of popularity.

Luckily, the specs have been leaked like a faucet in John’s new house. Take a gander:

* 15.40-inch display (CCFL up to 1680 x 1050, LED up to 1440 x 900)
* Core 2 Duo options from 1.5GHz (T5250) up to 2.6GHz (T7800)
* Crestline GM/PM 965 chipset with up to 2GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
* GeForce 8400M or 8600M GS options (up to 256MB)
* Slot-loading Blu-ray / 8x DVD±RW
* Options for 802.11a/b/g/n, WWAN, Bluetooth
* HDMI, VGA, 1394, ExpressCard, (3) USB 2.0, Ethernet, fingerprint reader, media reader
* 2.0 megapixel (with CCFL) or 300k (with LED) cameras
* Weighs about 4 pounds

Well, considering the Core 2 Duo is there and HDMI + Blu-ray will be available, I’d say that we have a decent competitor on our hands. What Dell, no love for the HD DVD?

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Earlier today we introduced you to the new of Inspirons and now we have a few snaps of what they, and the XPS notebooks look like up close.

Although the new additions to the XPS line are elegantly designed, it looks like the Inspirons got the short end of the stick when it comes to visual appeal.

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Back at CES, Dell released the XPS 710 H2C desktop, a high-end liquid-cooled gaming rig able to be loaded up with almost every performance part on the market at the time and overclocked at the factory. Today, they announced the availability of its successor, the XPS 720 H2C, again featuring the latest high-performance components.

A 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor QX6700 (factory overclocked to 3.46GHz) and 2GB of 800MHz Corsair DOMINATOR DDR2 memory (factory overclocked to 1,066MHz) are joined by dual 768MB nVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX graphics cards and dual 10,000rpm 160GB hard drives. GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics cards, a 2.93GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6800 CPU overclocked to 3.73GHz and an Ageia PhysX processor are three of the available upgrades.

Prices start at $5,999, but that includes a 2x Blu-ray drive, a 24-inch Dell UltraSharp LCD and Dell’s WL6000 5.8GHz wireless rear 5.1 speaker system with subwoofer.

Dell XPS 720 H2C Desktop [product site]

In all likelihood, desktops will always be ahead of laptops as far as storage goes. It’s simply a matter of size and power: a desktop can have both in spades, but a laptop needs to be portable and cord-free. Dell, though, is stepping things up a notch by adding 250GB HDs to certain of its XPS M1710 laptops.

These make the first mass-produced commercial laptops in America with quarter-terabyte capacities, and exciting prospect for those of us who prefer mobility to desktop slavery. And as the full-on version of Windows Vista takes roughly 200GB for a full install, it’s good to have another 50GB to play around with. Sadly, the monster drives are only available in 5400RPM configurations, so if performance is your hot-button, you’ll wanna wait.
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If you’ve been waiting for something different in gaming PCs to come along by the end of the year, you may be in luck. Dell has got a little teaser up for its new Black Ice (whatever it may be) on its newly designed XPS website, and all it says so far is:

Technology like you’ve never seen. Black Ice is coming, exclusively from Dell.

Gizmodo guesses that Black Ice is a liquid cooling solution that will allow Dell to overclock its computers to a whole new level. I’ll have to agree with Giz on this one. Black Ice could very well be a new liquid cooling solution (maybe it’ll hit GPUs and CPUs, something the new Alienware is lacking), and I’m excited to see what it’s all about. You can head over to the XPS site and sign up for a mailing list and Dell well send you information when it decides to give us more information about Black Ice. Until then, stay tuned.

Dell’s Black Ice Coming to an XPS Near You [gizmodo]