Anybody using Dell XPS 27 inch all in one touch screen for photo and video?

Is there anybody here who is using Dell XPS 27 inch touch screen pc all in one for photo and video editing?

I like that it is compact and powerful inside. Any experience from photographers, videographers?

Thanks!

Was there a specific model (processor/spec combo) you were looking at?

Haven't had my hands on one of those devices, but based on my experience with some similarly designed systems I have to say that one of the big problems seems to be thermal management. They frequently are sprinters, not long distance runners, and will be very quick and snappy if you only ask for high processor demanding tasks in fairly short bursts, such as editing a photo or two, but then will mostly use fairly low demand tasks, such as browsing the web for awhile. If you try asking them to do heavy number crunching for hours on end, then you can quickly hit a thermal throttle wall and what had just been a blazing fast processor then grinds down to a crawl. (That the dell.ca site lists the processor options as "up to x ghz" has me rather suspicious as to how long they will actually hold out at the listed spend before the processor overheats and throttles back to keep from cooking itself.)


I had used a computer similar in style to that, but I can't remember exactly what model, a few months ago to help a friend do some processing for their research. The initial batches of processing took about 10 seconds each, and things were going fine. After a dozen or so the time frame was jumping up to about 20 seconds for a few, and then suddenly was taking two to three minutes to get through the numbers. Reran all the tests on my own system when I got home and they were all +/- 20% in run time from the average.