Since Dell’s idea of “beautiful” industrial design has been to this point, throwing lots of neon lights on a box with glowing logos — this is a big upgrade for them.
Still cannot touch any iMac’s industrial design I can remember! Glad to see PC users have an all-in-one setup that doesn’t look too bad. I love that we can put our iMac in our family/play room for the kids and it looks like a piece of furniture with only the single power cord coming out of it (Bluetooth everything else, and Wifi).
The iMac's design looks sort of like a boutique brand flat screen TV (maybe B&O), but not quite just like a monitor or TV, slightly different. It just works as a whole innovative design.
From the initial front view it is a standard monitor with cheap speakers tacked to the sides. Better than before, but not quite there yet. At least they copied Apple's idea to slope the back so the edges don't look too thick. I also wonder if it's as quiet. Dell's laptops aren't very quiet.
On the tech side, optional Blu-Ray is nice. It comes with a media card reader, nice. TV tuner is nice (I think Apple doesn't do it because it conflicts with iTunes). It only takes 2 GB RAM, not good, that tells me they likely used an older laptop chipset. Max drive size is only 500 GB. Discrete video is only for the models that cost more than a 24" iMac (which has an ATI 2600), but it's only as good as as what you get on a base 20" iMac (ATI 2400).
At any of its price points, why would you buy one of these instead of an iMac? The only possible thing I can think of is to play Blu-Ray or have a TV tuner without having to use an external device.
Oh, please...what about the egg on a stick?