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hi I'm rich brown senior editor for CNET today we're gonna take a look at the Dell XPS one 27 so this is a 27 inch all-in-one PC from Dell and it's unique mostly because it has a 2560 by 1440 resolution display that makes this the highest resolution windows-based on one and it's in line with a 27-inch iMac so Dell sells the system in four fix configurations this is the $15.99 model it's in the middle of the pack comes with a core i5 CPU from Intel's third generation chips eight gigs of ram a terabyte hard drive and an nvidia geforce 640 m graphics chip there's only a standard DVD burner in this system that feels a little bit in Congress for the rest of the market given that blu-ray is so widely available if you want blu-ray you have to spend for the 1999 version of the system otherwise the system is pretty fast and given its high resolution monitor the fact that it's unique it's actually pretty fairly priced now this is not a touchscreen like most modern on ones but the benefit of the high resolution is that you can fit lots of windows on screen and everything just looks crisper it simply looks like a better PC now the system isn't really meant for professional level video or image editing arguably unlike the iMac there's a glossy treatment on the screen the iMac has that too but here it seems even worse and it picks up images from pretty much all around the room now of course we also try to watch the video on this system and it actually looks pretty good the black levels maybe aren't exactly what we'd like them to be but overall HD content in particular looks great standard def content though it looks pretty muddy up close so you want to watch that from a distance there's a webcam here up top and there's actually a little shutter you can slide to completely close that off if you're sort of concerned about privacy or anything like that down here you have the basic display controls and their proximity activated which is kind of nice the problem is though they're actually pretty limited for display for example you can swap out the signal if you want to connect to the HDMI device you may have connected to it you can also adjust the brightness setting on the screen but that's probably too limited for a system as high-end as this one now here on the left side you'll see some basic inputs you've got headphone a microphone a couple USB three jacks as well as an SD card one nice feature about this system is all the USB ports are USB three here in the back panel you'll see inputs for a TV tuner digital audio input HDMI in and out and over here you have four more USB ports than an Ethernet jack the TV tuner is probably the one sticking point we have with the features in the system we'd much rather have a blu-ray drive so for its speed its high resolution and it's fair price I can recommend this Dell I might wait a couple months to see if Apple comes out with a new iMac I wouldn't be surprised that it happened over although this is among the best high-end windows-based all-in-ones Cermak Brown this is the Dell XPS one 27