If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that my ancient Pentium 4 powered desktop died on Saturday. I had powered it off and unplugged from the socket while I was away in holiday. So it died a peaceful death in its sleep. 
My it rest in peace forever more….
So I had to go off to Dell and spec a replacement PC.
I settled on an XPS 8300 with a nice new Intel i7-2600. Its the latest Sandy Bridge CPU, 4 cores clocked at 3.40Ghz.
Base
Intel® Core™ i7-2600 Processor (3.40GHz, 8MB)
Memory
8192MB Dual Channel DDR3 1333MHz [2×4096] Memory
Video Card
Graphics : 1GB AMD Radeon HD 6670
Hard Drive
1.5TB (7,200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive
Microsoft Operating System
English Genuine Windows®7 Professional SP1 (64 BIT)
Sound Cards
Sound : Integrated 7.1 with THX® TruStudio
I’m quite looking forward to playing with this once it arrives. All that power…..
Once again I’ll be able to run Visual Studio on the desktop. As well as Virtual PC and Virtualbox.
Not to mention the fact that Flight Simulator is going to rock on this machine
Expect a review in about 2 weeks
Random Musings 
Dell is a international company . this company invent own product in the market.
I have dell 15-R laptop and it is performing very well.
Some nice specs 🙂 I have a Dell XPS M1710 Laptop, had it for a few years now and its never let me down, even when I spilt beer all over it lol
Was thinking of getting a Desktop (as I gave my old one away to my son) then I could play Pro Flight Simulator on it.
Think the Dell XPS8300 would be a good choice 🙂