Dell’s new studio hybrid makes a strong impression with its stylish design, and its price will make you take notice too. A basic configuration starts at $499 without monitor; configuration with a 19 inch LCD cost $1064.
Dell bills the studio hybrid as being 80 percent smaller than a typical desktop. To achieve this feat of miniaturization, the Hybrid uses notebook-computer components. The Test configuration had a2.1 GHz core 2 Duo T8100 CPU, 2GB of memory , a 250 GB Hard drive , and Intel mobile 965 Express Chipset integrated Graphics. The system isn’t expandable, so it has no graphics option beyond the integrated Intel Graphics.
What’s most noteworthy about this system is that you don’t pay premium for the miniaturized design.
What’s least noteworthy is the machine’s performance. It mustered a score of only 79 on our World Bench 6 tests, tying the mark garnered by the HP Touch Smart IQ506, which likewise uses notebook components; neither of these systems is in the same league as value PCs configured desktop guts. Graphics performance was weak as well: the studio Hybrid failed to muster playable frame rates on either of gaming tests.
The studio Hybrid Blah performance limits its versatility, but the idea of having stylish, unobtrusive system to connect to my television appeals to me. Suddenly, using a PC as a digital video recorder seems plausible.
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