Dell Announces Stunning New XPS Desktop

Taking its design cue from the XPS portable PCs, the new Dell XPS Desktop is a stunning and modern take on the tower PC.

“After unveiling our newest XPS notebooks in May, it’s no surprise that we’re bringing that same power and style to our new XPS Desktop [and] adding to our award-winning XPS family in stride,” Dell marketing director Chris Sutphen announced. “Redesigned from the ground up, the XPS Desktop returns as the most powerful XPS system ever built.”

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This gorgeous new tower PC is powered, as expected, by 10th-generation Intel Core processors up to i9K and up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER  graphics. It features a tool-less chassis, a 500-watt power supply that supports up to 225-watt graphics, four storage bays, three expansion slots, and enhanced thermal management. And like the XPS laptops, it’s available in Mineral White or Night Sky colors.

Dell has also announced a new lineup of S-series displays to accompany that new XPS Desktop They are available in sizes from 27- to 32-inches and feature integrated speakers, 99 percent sRGB color coverage, and AMD FreeSync technology.

The XPS Desktop is available now in the U.S. and Canada today and is coming to Europe and Asia later this month. Pricing starts at $649.99.

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  • simont

    Premium Member
    09 July, 2020 - 11:53 am

    <p>Small Typo That should be RTX 2070 SUPER graphics</p>

    • christian.hvid

      09 July, 2020 - 12:38 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#553068">In reply to simont:</a></em></blockquote><p>And i9K should be i9-10900K. The top-of-the-line model is actually quite affordable at $2,660. I had expected something well north of $3000.</p>

    • Paul Thurrott

      Premium Member
      10 July, 2020 - 8:37 am

      Yep, thanks!

  • sleepyd

    09 July, 2020 - 12:23 pm

    <p>Is this an ad? It reads like an ad. There’s nothing special about the design of the case.</p>

    • waethorn

      09 July, 2020 - 6:03 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#553073">In reply to sleepyd:</a></em></blockquote><p>Ya, it looks like trash to me.</p>

  • monosoftware

    Premium Member
    09 July, 2020 - 12:52 pm

    <p>This design looks a lot like Dell’s Precision or OptiPlex designs meant for business. A design I like a lot more than the consumer desktops. The tool-less design is excellent and the quality of the parts is very good. I think this is a good move.</p>

  • bart

    Premium Member
    09 July, 2020 - 12:54 pm

    <p>500W?!?! Will the rest of the town have power Paul? :)</p>

    • christian.hvid

      09 July, 2020 - 1:43 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#553089">In reply to Bart:</a></em></blockquote><p>According to Tom's Hardware, the i9-10900K will peak at as much as 325W. Add to that the 225W GPU and you get, well, 550W. Anyway, a PSU between 500W and 800W is more or less the norm for this type of computer. Of course, that doesn't mean it draws that kind of power continuously.</p>

  • DBSync

    09 July, 2020 - 12:55 pm

    <p>What is "stunning"?</p>

  • wunderbar

    Premium Member
    09 July, 2020 - 1:23 pm

    <p>Yeah this looks like Optiplex Desktops for the past several years with a couple tiny tweaks.</p>

    • wright_is

      Premium Member
      10 July, 2020 - 2:40 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#553093">In reply to wunderbar:</a></em></blockquote><p>Or older IBM ThinkStations.</p>

  • thalter

    Premium Member
    09 July, 2020 - 1:25 pm

    <p>Gorgeous? Stunning? Meh. I see just another tower PC that will be banished under the desk. BTW, no one uses tower PCs on their desk like in the photo. </p>

  • cone143

    09 July, 2020 - 1:44 pm

    <p>I do not see that Win 10 Professional 64 bit is an option. Have I missed something? </p><p><br></p><p>Update: </p><p><br></p><p>After calling Dell Sales Support and speaking to 3 different people, they sent me a link to the one model that can have Win 10 Pro. This could not be a more unfriendly site for a prospective buyer.</p><p><br></p><p>This would have been my first Dell, but the whole experience was so annoying that I will purchase locally.</p><p><br></p><p>Here is the link they sent me:&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dell.com%2Fen-us%2Fshop%2Fdesktop-computers%2Fnew-xps-desktop%2Fspd%2Fxps-8940-desktop%2Fxd8940ms08s&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7Caee9dee71e9a4cc69b5508d8242ea493%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637299130030183942&amp;sdata=ESRohe0o3cDY7swlhSQyHcK7l5AdNa5dq7QkVQQ1Vm8%3D&amp;reserved=0&quot; target="_blank">https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/new-xps-desktop/spd/xps-8940-desktop/xd8940ms08s</a></p&gt;

    • SvenJ

      09 July, 2020 - 2:44 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#553100"><em>In reply to cone143:</em></a><em> </em>This is a consumer product. There is just very little that Pro provides a consumer over Home these days. If there are things you know you need, it is easier to just get it with Home, and upgrade it. It's quite painless. Especially if you do it right after initial setup.</blockquote><p><br></p>

      • innitrichie

        09 July, 2020 - 3:06 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#553112">In reply to SvenJ:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Bitlocker is a must.</p>

        • pwingert

          09 July, 2020 - 4:50 pm

          <blockquote><a href="#553125"><em>In reply to innitrichie:</em></a><em> Most of my laptop that have come from Dell have Bitlocker available and or enabled. I don't think Bitlocker is a Pro only feature anymore wth Dell. The only item that Pro is needed for is Domain authetication for a residential user. and with VPN's more corporate laptops already have pro.</em></blockquote><p><br></p>

          • waethorn

            09 July, 2020 - 6:01 pm

            <blockquote><em><a href="#553147">In reply to pwingert:</a></em></blockquote><p>Remote Desktop Server</p>

      • wright_is

        Premium Member
        10 July, 2020 - 2:45 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#553112">In reply to SvenJ:</a></em></blockquote><p>XPS is prosumer. We use a lot of XPS laptops at work, all with Windows Pro.</p><p>Likewise, all of my home PCs have Windows Pro on them.</p>

  • martinusv2

    Premium Member
    09 July, 2020 - 2:13 pm

    <p>Strange that they make FreeSync monitors since nVidia is on G-Sync. </p>

  • dallasnorth40

    Premium Member
    09 July, 2020 - 2:23 pm

    <p>Looks great. I'm looking to replace my wife's aging desktop. This may be what she wants.</p>

    • ommoran

      Premium Member
      09 July, 2020 - 3:12 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#553107">In reply to dallasnorth40:</a></em></blockquote><p>Ditto, same scenario!</p>

  • sykeward

    09 July, 2020 - 2:42 pm

    <p>I guess I'm missing something because this doesn't look stunning to me at all, but I'm seeing this same story all over the tech news sites so I think it's probably a media push by Dell for some reason. I've never been a huge fan of Dell's industrial design compared to other PC makers, but this new design doesn't even look as good as the previous XPS much less the genuinely interesting designs from the XPS 700 era.</p>

    • Paul Thurrott

      Premium Member
      10 July, 2020 - 8:30 am

      First of all, thank you for subtly accusing me of succumbing to a “media push” by Dell. I’ve been reporting on the Microsoft ecosystem for over 25 years and have been reviewing hardware for over 20 years—and, yes, my first hardware review was a Dell laptop! Conspiracy!—so it’s reasonable to assume that instead of providing my own opinion, I just cut and paste some marketing crap from the company and pretended it was news.

      Secondly, I don’t really give a shit what anyone thinks about my opinion of anything, really, but please do know that me calling this “stunning” is, at the least, my own opinion: This thing is so attractive, I’m considering buying one, and I don’t even need a new desktop PC.

      As I noted recently on Twitter, you know what they say about opinions!

      Yours is wrong.

  • innitrichie

    09 July, 2020 - 3:04 pm

    <p>All I can do is stare and drool at that beautiful piece of modern design architecture. Seriously, I want this on my desk now.</p><p><br></p><p>Whoever the artist is behind this work, congratulations! You nailed it.</p><p><br></p><p>Really good to see PC OEMs taking these details seriously while Apple goes stale.</p>

    • pecosbob04

      10 July, 2020 - 7:46 am

      <blockquote><a href="#553124"><em>In reply to innitrichie:</em></a><em>Honestly unsure if this comment is satirical or my browser displays a different image.</em></blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><p><br></p>

  • mrdrwest

    09 July, 2020 - 3:27 pm

    <p>No AMD Ryzen?</p>

  • Mcgillivray

    09 July, 2020 - 6:58 pm

    <p>I had a tower that looked like that back in 1994. I remember loading a demo version of 'Chicago' on 24 floppies into it. Except it was beige. So, I just don't see how this is much better than any other plastic tower in the last 25 years…</p>

    • wright_is

      Premium Member
      10 July, 2020 - 2:43 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#553155">In reply to Mcgillivray:</a></em></blockquote><p>Yeah, I had a beige tower back then, I took it out the back and sprayed it matt black.</p>

  • nbplopes

    09 July, 2020 - 7:11 pm

    <p>Just judging by the picture it looks like a regular plastic tower where the grI’ll mildly resembles the Mac Pro. Cues from the laptop it’s nothing but a stretch of marketing.</p><p><br></p><p>Why is this stunning? Have no idea.</p><p><br></p><p>Still it probably does circles around the performance of any laptop in the market at half the price.</p>

  • curtisspendlove

    09 July, 2020 - 7:51 pm

    <p>I kinda expected a lot more when I saw “stunning” in the headline. It’s attractive, for sure. </p><p><br></p><p>Pricing is pretty decent too. </p>

  • chaad_losan

    09 July, 2020 - 10:50 pm

    <p>Stunning AND Brave. NOT. It looks like a computer I had 15 years ago. really? A box with grated pattern on the front? You just copied and pasted the ad copy for this didn't you? for example "<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This gorgeous new tower PC is powered" No one in their right mind would EVER describe what I see there as gorgeous.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">… Just Sad </span></p>

    • Stooks

      10 July, 2020 - 12:18 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#553190">In reply to chaad_losan:</a></em></blockquote><p>We have old OptiPlex's at work that are the same basic shape and size….they are at least 5 years old, probably older.</p>

    • Paul Thurrott

      Premium Member
      10 July, 2020 - 8:23 am

      Brave? 🙂

  • wright_is

    Premium Member
    10 July, 2020 - 2:40 am

    <p>Stunning and modern? From the image, it looks like a 10-20 year old IBM ThinkStation at first glance… :-S</p><p>What am I missing?</p><p>Don't get me wrong, it doesn't look bad or anything, but it hardly looks revolutionary.</p><p>Also, if the display has integrated speakers, why does the PC need 2 sets of external speakers, in the photo?</p>

  • solomonrex

    10 July, 2020 - 1:07 pm

    <p>Look, everyone, there's complaints when he's negative, now complaints when he's positive. He's entitled to his own design opinion, sure.</p><p><br></p><p>But, Paul, stunning? Where's the RGB? It needs RBG to be stunning.</p><p><br></p><p>I miss their bamboo PCs. THOSE were stunning.</p>

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