Dell Called It "The Showstopper" - The Dell XPS M2010, a last hurrah of the luggable PC.

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• Davel23@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I actually considered getting one of these back when they were new.

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• MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Holy shit, I’ve repaired a couple of these. Somehow, both were personally owned by different professors, who each opted to have the repairs done in their respective buildings on the same university campus.

  I don’t even remember the parts I swapped, or if they were particularly easy or hard to work on inside. I seem to recall one of the Alienware gaming laptops with the removable GPUs I found surprisingly easy by comparison, but that doesn’t mean anything in an era where HP and Dell were both turning out SFF and not-so-SFF desktops that would have the weirdest accomodations AND gotchas when it came to repairing them.

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• EvilLootbox@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He wasn’t kidding when he said the remote was the best part, I was digging the whole thing until then but it blew me away as much as it did him. Was one of the best retro computer vids I’ve seen in some time, I loved everything about it

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  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Glad you enjoyed it so much! When he’s excited about something and has a story to tell, it really comes through.

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• Donatella@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @quordle this laptop with superior quality and features compared to other laptops they have used before

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• dordle12@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Whether you are an experienced puzzle player or a casual gamer looking for some light entertainment, dordle games are guaranteed to bring you hours of fun!

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• emr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Great video. Haven’t finished it yet, but did he ever explain why you’d want your media center to be luggable? I feel like if they’d ditched the screen and keyboard they would have something better than a modern streaming box except in 2006, but maybe they sold something like that too.

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  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The keyboard was designed for using on the couch, so that makes sense to include. The battery doesn’t make sense, but the rest of it sorta does. It’s trying to be a uni-tasker device, and act as both your main desktop computer, as well as a couch-based media center, and even a music player to use from anywhere in the house thanks to the Bluetooth remote.

    I guess it doesn’t specifically need to be luggable to do those tasks, but the integrated monitor and small size isn’t unwanted in a living room PC. But definitely not critical.

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    • emr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m trying to picture how the other room music is supposed to work. Are you cranking the volume on your TV speakers loud enough to hear in the other toom, or using the PC to control an extra set or far away speakers, or did people used to wire their houses with everywhere speakers controlled from a single receiver?

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