Dell introduces a redesigned XPS desktop and 2 new pro-level Alienware Aurora machines

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Dell has engineered changes into some the XPS and Aurora redesigns to maximize airflow and expandability, and each 3 are suited to professional-level plan and aggravated computing tasks.

Dell has announced the merchandise of redesigned XPS and Alienware desktops, and portion 2 of the 3 are meant for gaming, each 3 could basal their ain arsenic high-performance nonrecreational desktops.

The XPS, successful particular, is built for contented creators and volition adjacent person aptly-named XPS Creator Edition configurations for those needing peculiar kinds of power, and its all-new lawsuit plan "maximizes performance, airflow and acoustics," Dell said.

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The caller Alienware machines are besides absorbing for their design, which Dell said brings them successful enactment to lucifer Alienware's caller Legend 2.0 plan standard. While not designed to beryllium arsenic expandable arsenic the XPS, the caller Alienware Aurora bid advertises improved interior measurement and plan that improves show and vigor management. It besides looks truly sleek if sci-fi aesthetics are your thing.

The New Dell XPS: Reasons to buy

The XPS is getting a redesign that Dell said takes it backmost to its "XPS roots." Namely, a monstrous lawsuit that puts the eXpansion successful XPS (note: the X really means extreme). The caller XPS is simply a monolithic 27-liters large, oregon a afloat 42% larger than the erstwhile 19L XPS case. All that abstraction means it has a batch of country for expansion, allowing owners to support improving it implicit time.

That other abstraction besides frees up country for up to a 12th-gen Intel Core i9k process, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 oregon AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT and DDR5 representation that is 50% faster than DDR4.

The caller XPS besides supports up to a 750W powerfulness supply, 350W graphics card, PCIe5 graphics, 4 retention bays and 3 PCIe slots. In essence, it's a beast.

As mentioned above, the caller XPS volition besides beryllium disposable successful what Dell calls XPS Creator Edition configurations that are packaged with NVIDIA Studio drivers and hardware "carefully selected for those who aspire to cultivate their integer contented instauration skills whether that beryllium successful photography, graphic design, euphony accumulation oregon beyond."

Pricing for the caller XPS desktops volition commencement astatine $919 erstwhile they spell connected merchantability aboriginal successful the fall, Dell said.

The caller XPS is going to beryllium perfect for creators, but adjacent those who can't spend a top-of-the-line instrumentality should see it astatine its introductory price, with 1 caveat: Get the larger powerfulness supply. The XPS is built to beryllium modified and upgrade implicit time, and provided you person a nice, large powerfulness proviso you should beryllium capable to support it growing, on with your career, for years to come.

The New Alienware Auroras: Reasons to buy

The sleek, curved cases, EMI-shielded broadside sheet and LED lighting marque some of the caller Alienware Aurora desktops look similar sci-fi computers or, astatine the precise least, gaming desktops. They're specced retired too, with the biggest quality being that the achromatic exemplary is an Intel machine, portion the achromatic 1 is powered by an AMD processor.

Here's a speedy look astatine however the 2 Alienware Aurora machines differ, starting with the AMD model, which supports up to an AMD Ryzen 9 processor and AMD B550 chipset, and is aptly named the Aurora Ryzen Edition R14. It supports the aforesaid video cards arsenic the XPS, arsenic good arsenic an optional 750W powerfulness supply, up to 128GB DDR4 RAM and up to a 4TB PCIe SSD hard thrust partitioned down the mediate for footwear and storage.

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The Intel model, the R13, has up to a 12th Generation Intel Core i9k, an Intel Z690 chipset, up to 128GB of DDR5 RAM, is PCIe 5 ready, has 2 Type-C USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 ports and optional liquid cooling.

Both models are akin successful their wide design, which includes customized motherboards with powerfulness connectors positioned toward the bound of the committee to amended airflow and cablegram management. In addition, the caller committee besides eliminates the request for a girl committee for the beforehand I/O ports, further reducing wiring needs.

Both models connection marked improvements implicit erstwhile generations of Alienware Aurora desktops, and the caller plan was engineered "from the wrong out, [with] components laid retired successful cleanable harmony enabling performance, casual upgrades and optimized acoustics," Dell said.

Don't expect to get disconnected cheap, though: The Aurora R13 starts astatine $1,479.99, and the Aurora Ryzen Edition R14 starts astatine $1,249.99. Both are disposable today.