BEIJING, Nov. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Dell launched the all-in-one XPS One on Friday as a rival to the Apple iMac and the Gateway One personal computers, although the company won't begin shipping the new PCs for a few days.

Dell is accepting orders on the company's website with prices ranging from from 1,499 U.S. dollars up to about 2,400 dollars.

Like the iMac or Gateway all-in-one PCs, Dell is promoting the XPS One as a unified, space-saving experience. The XPS One contains some components typically found in laptops -- a 2.0-Mpixel camera, an array microphone, glass LCD, and an Mobile PCI Express (MXM) graphics card module -- plus desktop performance.

In all models, the display measures 20 inches, while the included processor is either an Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 or E6550. Two gigabytes of RAM come standard.

Dell is marketing the One in four different configurations: "Essential," "Music," "Performance" and "Entertainment." The latter model includes both a high-performance 256-Mbyte ATI Radeon HD 2400 (just days after the official launch of the Radeon 3850) and a Blu-ray writer drive.

In a PC Magazine review, analyst Joel Santo Domingo could find little fault with the XPS One, ranking it on par or superior to the Apple and Gateway machines, and awarded it an Editor's Choice.

"The Dell XPS One, like the HP Blackbird 002, uses design to add 'Wow,' and just about everything about the design and features make sense," Santo Domingo wrote. "This is the all-in-one PC to beat ─ for now."

(Agencies)