It’s ‘different’ than the previous laptops. Weighs more. Has a monster power adapter–3x the size and weight of the previous. Keyboard is much the same. It’s supposed to be lighted, which requires a bios adjustment—granted you have the hardware. I asked for ‘no camera’. I see no need for one, and imho, they are exploitable. Why should I have one and have it cluttering up the system? <\/p>\n
I strongly suspect this was one of the delays. Dell’s Precision division has one major customer who makes the same demand—the Federal government and US military—and the ‘case’ issues that twice delayed the computer might have involved not having Property of the US Government tattooed on my camera-less case. But it WAS an option on the ‘build your own’ screen.<\/p>\n
Faster. The hybrid solid state drive does speed things up. The screen is a tad larger, and HD—it is quite a screen. <\/p>\n
I’m going to take my time switching over to the new machine, because I have time; and the Latitude will become my travel computer. I plan to straighten out some of my duplicated files and move them into unified folders before they even go on the disk. There’s a nice little freeware called Duplicate Cleaner, and it does seem to work well: helped me straighten out my photo files. I am asking myself if I dare turn it loose on my text files. Not without backing up to DVD I don’t.<\/p>\n
The new machine is an i7 Intel type, of a recommended version of the i7, drive is part regular with a solid state ‘card’ for system files. <\/p>\n
It doesn’t have a massive hard disk. It doesn’t have a massive amount of RAM—I can add that as needed, which I don’t think it will be. This handles graphics better than the Latitude. <\/p>\n
And I hope to goodness it’s going to serve me for years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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