Gadget Train

Yeah, we’re smitten. We couldn’t tell you what Dell’s doing here that they haven’t managed in the last 100,000 XPS desktop designs, but whatever it is we want to buy it flowers and CryEngine 2-powered games. The new Studio XPS 435 landed on Dell’s site a couple days ago, and is now available for configuration and sale. The “base model” sports a 2.66GHz Core i7-920 processor, 3GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 3650 256MB graphics card. Things of course rise dramatically from there — you can add another grand to the pricetag by bumping the processor alone, and the 24GB of RAM option is a nice $1,500 addition — but we’d say the base model is a pretty solid start. Dell’s quoting a March 19th ship date, but that’s just “preliminary” at the moment.

[Via DesktopReview]