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> With 24-hours per charge on a lot of these modern laptops, why do you need to carry spare batteries? At least for ability to quickly poweroff my laptop, for

> With 24-hours per charge on a lot of these modern laptops, why do you need to carry spare batteries? At least for ability to quickly poweroff my laptop, for example if OS is hanged down or maybe if some water spilled on the device. Also I do not want to carry laptop to a service just to change battery. Last but not least, internal batteries use to be unique per model while external batteries use to be a mass product, good luck finding spare internal battery for really old laptop. > A singular USB-C hub can support 20x USB 2.0 A devices at full speed. The main reason of my hate to all kinds of external hubs is that when your mobile device has a beard of hubs and adapters then some of that connections are going to lose a contact mechanically. Why not just to drill more holes in the side edges of device instead of making side edges empty? And you told nothing about where to get a modern laptop with as comfortable keyboard as in my x220.

dragontamer 4y ago
> Why not just to drill more holes in the side edges of device instead of making side edges empty? Because people have largely stopped using physical connectors and instead use Bluetooth and/or WiFi ones today. There are exceptions, but those exceptions are fixed with USB-C hubs, which again are just $30 in my experience and give you all the USB-A ports you need. I personally still prefer wired mouse (no batteries is a big advantage), but even my active digitizer pen is bluetooth, as are my Gamepads (4 players+ support). I still use physical headset (mic/speaker), and so I still try to buy headset jacks. Then HDMI. My Phone is mostly WiFi connections for most relevant tasks. USB is enough for the errant DVD-drive, USB-drive, RJ45 Ethernet. HDMI is all I use aside from that. > Also I do not want to carry laptop to a service just to change battery. If you have a screwdriver, then you can change the batteries yourself on most of these laptops, including the Dell XPS that is being discussed in this topic. See the guide manual I posted earlier, its really not that hard. The key is reading the service manual _BEFORE_ buying a laptop. There's many hundreds of laptop models out there. Many suck, but many others have good service guides and good service design that can be done with just a screwdriver.

dragontamer 4y ago

> Why not just to drill more holes in the side edges of device instead of making side edges empty? Because people have largely stopped using physical connectors and instead use Bluetooth and/or WiFi ones today. There are exceptions, but those exceptions are fixed with USB-C hubs, which again are just $30 in my experience and give you all the USB-A ports you need. I personally still prefer wired mouse (no batteries is a big advantage), but even my active digitizer pen is bluetooth, as are my Gamepads (4 players+ support). I still use physical headset (mic/speaker), and so I still try to buy headset jacks. Then HDMI. My Phone is mostly WiFi connections for most relevant tasks. USB is enough for the errant DVD-drive, USB-drive, RJ45 Ethernet. HDMI is all I use aside from that. > Also I do not want to carry laptop to a service just to change battery. If you have a screwdriver, then you can change the batteries yourself on most of these laptops, including the Dell XPS that is being discussed in this topic. See the guide manual I posted earlier, its really not that hard. The key is reading the service manual _BEFORE_ buying a laptop. There's many hundreds of laptop models out there. Many suck, but many others have good service guides and good service design that can be done with just a screwdriver.