Kent Borg wrote: > My Dell XPS 13 7390 is getting old creaky, and at nearly 4-years, it isn't > new, but how annoying, it has been a nice machine. > > > Grrr. I don't want to spend a bunch of money on a new computer right now. > But the battery is supposedly only 57% of what it used to be. The trackpad > doesn't like to click in the location where I like to click and is only > slightly more agreeable in other places. One of USB-C jacks seems grumpy > (not noticing things I plug in) and the others are maybe a bit odd, not > sure. > > God I wish everything weren't so damn disposable.
iFixIt will sell you a new battery for about $100. The trackpad might be fixable by opening it up and blowing out dust. The USB-C jack can't be fixed without replacing it, which involves soldering, but they are notorious for being grumpy when there is a small amount of dust inside. > Do I want an AMD Ryzon 7040 or an Intel i5-1340P? Is one better better > supported for Linux for these days…? My work desktop is a Ryzen 7 7735HS (which is a laptop CPU; the thing is a NUC-sized box) with 32GB RAM and a 1 TB NVMe disk. It runs Debian stable very nicely, with a 4K monitor in landscape and a 1920x1200 monitor in portrait mode. I like the AMD chips a lot. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@driftwood.blu.org https://driftwood.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
