Acer Predator 21x of today vs Dell XPS M2010 of the past

NumLock21 · January 8, 2017

Back when dial up was still a thing, buying PC parts means driving to a store, and your latest source of tech news is a monthly subscription magazine, Dell had made a laptop where everyone thought they went bananas, and by today's standards it probably still is. The laptop Dell made was the XPS M2010, it was customizable so everyone had different specs. It came with a Intel mobile Core Duo processor around 2Ghz or so, up to 4GB of DDR2 memory, ATi Radeon (Made in Canada!!!) X1800 dedicated graphics with 256MB of vram. 100 to 120GB HDD or up to 2 of them in in RAID 0, 20" screen at 1680x1050, 8 speakers with 1 subwoofer, dual multi-format card reader, and a pop up slot loading DVD drive. Keyboard is full size with numeric keypad and a built in track pad. It's also bluetooth, where you can detach it from the laptop itself and use it on your lap while sitting on the couch. Dell has also bundled it with a bluetooth wireless mouse and a Media Center Remote, where the remote itself also acts as a gyroscopic mouse, so you can move the remote to control the cursor that's on the screen. It came with Windows XP Media Center Edition and later on Windows Vista. On the I/O you get gigabit lan, dial up modem, dual DVI, and USB. Based model starts out at $3,500.

Fast forward to today, we have the Acer Predator 21x, just as crazy as Dell did back then but into a whole new level with their 21 inch curve display running at 2560x1080 120Hz, dual GTX 1080 in SLI, a Core i7 7820HK which is unlocked, mechanical keyboard with RGB lighting, 4 speakers + 2 subwoofers, SD card reader, and Tobii eye tracking. Cost of this laptop $9,000. Both of them while years apart shared the same level of craziness that no others had thought of doing, and because of that, 10 or 20 years down the road, both will still make people stop in their tracks and look at them.

Dell XPS M2010