I went from a T440s to an XPS 13 (9310). It's my favorite "ultrabook"-type laptop I've owned so far (where the point is moderate specs in a small form factor wi

I went from a T440s to an XPS 13 (9310). It's my favorite "ultrabook"-type laptop I've owned so far (where the point is moderate specs in a small form factor with great battery life). It beat out my T440s for me because my t440s needed its mobo replaced TWICE because whatever about it that connected it to the trackpad and keyboard kept failing. Whereas my 9310 has been perfect. The only real hiccup I've ever had with it was: - when I bought it, the (intel) wlan card was too new and only arch had the driver in the kernel. - there was some flickering/jittering display problem that started showing up when we bumped kernel major versions somewhere in 2021ish. Was it 5 to 6? Anyway it ended up being reduced by a subsequent kernel update and then fixed when I disabled panel self-refresh (PSR) in the kernel args. But I stayed on the last 5.x kernel for a while until I figured that out. It's also generally impressed me at how well all its USB3/C stuff works. I use it with a dock while at work to drive an external display for personal stuff, and it has also driven a 49" 1440p super ultrawide which impressed me. And it's worked well even when I have literally every port on the dock populated with something or other: display, nic, mouse, kb, webcam, etc etc. with some docks or some laptops I've found that you usually find limitations as you try to use every single port simultaneously. I tend to hold on to laptops that I know work well with all my stuff for well past their technical relevance - I used my t440s until it stopped reliably booting (which for a laptop going on 8ish? years old after working fine after it's last mobo replacement 7 years ago is my sign for "ok time to upgrade"). So I'll probably have this 9310 for a while. ...I should replace the SSD. They're very cheap and stupid fast now, something that has changed in the past few years.