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I know all the media hype about the death of the desktop and how everyone is opting for laptops and tablets. That may be fine for a lot of people (I have a laptop and tablet, too)but I still find a lot to recommend about a desktop set up with lots of storage and a lightning fast processor. I do a lot of work for my job on my home computer and need a lot of storage for documents, photos, music (yes, I prefer my libraries to be on my hard drive) and misc. stuff and so opted to buy a new tower to replace my much upgraded but old (10 years) Dell 9150 tower. The new XPS 8500 is everything I could have wanted. Super fast, 3TB of hard drive storage, super graphics and sound cards, and lots of connectivity options. Getting used to Windows 8 after 10 years with Windows XP was a learning curve, but what isn't nowadays. The tower itself is a powerhouse of a computer which I anticipate will serve me well for a good long time. Kudos to Dell. I hope their financial and corporate house is able to be set in order because they are still doing a great job with the hardware.Read full review
I bought a computer just like this one directly from Dell a few years ago. It has been discontinued but is still able to run anything thrown at it as long as a newer video card is installed in it. I know this is a very good and reliable computer so I bought this as a Mother's day gift for my wife and put a GTX 970 into it. She loves this computer and is very happy with it.
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What to do - its tax time and my faithful '02 Dell OptiPlex is so overloaded I can't even run Turbo Tax. I have upgraded the memory to the max and have external drives hanging on all USB's. Time to buy a new PC the experts said. So I shopped and found the perfect solution in my new Dell XPS 8500 from an excellent seller on EBay. Windows 8 Pro and Office Pro came with the deal. It is a lot more than I started out looking for but the price was so affordable compared to competitor's offerings. The Intel ie7 processor and dual hard drive setup is screaming fast on everything. Getting up and running was quick and easy. Don't kid yourself though because Windows 8 is the first really different OS from Microsoft in years. Transfer of my contacts, documents and programs from my old machine was not easy. Windows Easy Transfer in XP is not compatible with Win8. You have to download the Win8 version to the old machine to make it work. Setting up a local network between the old XP machine and the new Win8 XPS 8500 to transfer files didn't work either because of incompatibility problems. All the effort was worth it! I love the new Dell XPS 8500. It is very fast, has enormous Ram and hard drive capacity and so far very reliable. I highly recommend it.Read full review
This is a very good and reasonably priced computer and it has enough memory and hard drive space to do most tasks fast the hard drive is especially nice size and should be able to use it for a long time.
The Dell XPS 8500 is a true Dell Powerhouse of a PC! I purchased this for my design company and use several editing software's that would break a lesser desktop. My XPS 8500 setup was with the Quad-Core i7 Processors, 16G-RAM, AMD Radeon 7770 graphics card, and a 2Tb hard drive. The AMD Radeon 7770 comes with the proprietary DisplayPort 1.2 which can handle massive multi-monitor setups. My XPS 8500 has handled EVERYTHING that I have thrown at it. For hours at a time I'll have Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver CS6 running; both of these programs require massive CPU performance as well as large chunks of RAM to operate... the XPS 8500 runs these without even kicking on its auxiliary fan. I would recommend this to anyone and have recommended it to several friends. It's a relatively budget desktop with MASSIVE power for the price.Read full review
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