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Dell XPS 600: Scuppered by its captain

By on 07 October 2005, 11:44am

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With a 64-bit, 3.8GHz Intel 670 processor and two SLI graphics cards, this mother is set to stun. Throw whatever game you like at it and it's not going to flinch with specs like that. Unfortunately, Windows XP has corrupted itself on our review machine, fresh through the door this morning, proving that it doesn’t matter how high-tech your hardware is, you can still have problems. We can't even re-install Windows because it won't accept its own product code. The greed of the multinational undermines the end user again, and we're left to puzzle over how we're going to get this machine up and running.

Windows doesn't even support 64-bit processing yet, so our redundant processor isn't missing out on much. Even if we had managed to boot the system, we'd only be using a fraction of the power these chips can deliver.

We're not looking forward to reinstalling Windows once we've managed to convince it to accept its product key. The process can take over an hour, while other operating systems (Linux and Mac OS, for example) can be reinstalled in less than ten minutes. Arghhh! -CS

Update: this review is now live here.

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