Originally Posted by
chgoeditor
I know! It's better now that airplanes have real plugs and not cigarette lighter plugs, but I still value (and use) the extra battery life.
AA is still mostly the cigarette lighter plugs; one of my bits of due dilligence before ordering the new one was making sure that I could keep using my existing machine with it.
I just have a hard time justifying spending money on a computer that's this old. I'd rather stop using it before it's completely falling apart so it can serve as a backup unit in a pinch.
More than fair reason to upgrade.
It was one that had the mouse integrated into the palmrest/keyboard with no defined mouse buttons and I kept brushing against it. It also seemed as if pressure anywhere on the palmrest seemed to activate the mouse, so I really hated both ergonomics and the keyboard.
Clickpads (with no defined mouse buttons) are an in thing, especially on the newest and thinned models; I blame Apple. More bad news -- the last TWO generations of the XPS15 have them, and they definitely take getting used to.
There does tend to be some tuning you can do about the overall sensitivity (and often a feature you can turn on that detects palm instead of finger) but it's not clear how well that works out.
Lenovo has stuck with the dual-pointer, and some of the chunkier business-line Dell Latitudes are still dual-pointer, but it's worth trying to get your hands on things in person if possible, or at least a very close examination of keyboard/palm rest pictures and reviews if not.