The Dell XPS 8500 brings the company's top consumer desktop into ... (there are two SATA ports free on the motherboard), ... which has a good typing feel but a laptop-style layout, with ...

Today's deal is for a model equipped with an Ivy Bridge Core i7-3770 quad-core processor, which clocks between 3.4GHz and 3.9GHz depending on thermal capabilities thanks to the Turbo Boost feature.

The Dell XPS 8500 brings the company's top consumer desktop into the "Ivy Bridge" generation with fast graphics and SSD storage. 4.0 Excellent. By Eric Grevstad . Jul 20, 2012. 4.0 Excellent.