I have put my hands on the new stackable powerconnect, successor of the 3324.

Some nices features like PoE on all port ( for the 3448, need another EPS Dell External Power Supply), Full 4 gigabits Ports,STP, Tacacs, SNMPv3, full manageable hover serial/ssh/http/https and a backplane of 12.8Gigbps, ( Dell's words ) for 999$. Well I can just tell you that no one can found features for this price, or tell me :)

The thing that you jump on your eyes is ...