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Re: Thin yet Repairable Devices: HP Proves They Exist

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Post by robocat » Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 7:00 AM UTC

paranoidrobot wrote: post #62

robocat wrote: post #60

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2017, 2018, 2019 models (XPS 13" and 15") are aluminium alloy top and bottom from my quick check on the Dell website. Did you make any effort to check the facts? Disclaimer: I have last year's XPS 15: although I am not a fan of Dell, I chose the XPS for fast i9 and good Linux support and I haven't been disappointed.

> Did you make any effort to check the facts? There's no need to be rude or condescending. I'm going based on my experience of using Dell XPS13 and XPS15 laptops at work over several generations. I don't have access to those laptops anymore, so I can't tell you which models they were, but I'm not making this shit up. To be clear, I'm talking about the plastic on the inside, around the keyboard rest/etc, not the exter…

> To be clear, I'm talking about the plastic on the inside

Ok: your original comment mentions 'lid' and 'metal case' without anything about the keyboard rest (which is carbon fibre). I am not saying I am the clearest communicator, but you didn't answer me very well IMHO.

Re: Thin yet Repairable Devices: HP Proves They Exist

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Post by scottlocklin » Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 2:12 PM UTC

brokenmachine wrote: post #70

scottlocklin wrote: post #44

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Wrote my thesis on an Omnibook 800 (with 16 megs of ram, lol) running twm. Miss the form factor, the ruggedness and the amazeballs integrated mouse. Still can't understand why people haven't copied the mouse design. Then again, I still can't understand why manufacturers are incapable of producing a nice keyboard like the Omnibook 800 had. http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=233 HP of today ... it's just a bra…

What's the amazeballs integrated mouse?

Look at the photo I linked. You press a button and this mouse on gimbals shoots out the right hand side. It's amazing; best laptop mouse ever. Or, look at this helpful vidya:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B-cGzmuKYM

Re: Thin yet Repairable Devices: HP Proves They Exist

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Post by brokenmachine » Mon, Jul 01, 2019, 5:23 AM UTC

scottlocklin wrote: post #72

brokenmachine wrote: post #70

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What's the amazeballs integrated mouse?

Look at the photo I linked. You press a button and this mouse on gimbals shoots out the right hand side. It's amazing; best laptop mouse ever. Or, look at this helpful vidya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B-cGzmuKYM

So it's just a pop-out mouse attached to the side? Is there anything else special about it? Can you pull it away from the side of the laptop? It looks hard to use attached like that.

I was hoping to be amazeballed, but unless there's more to it, so far I'm not amazeballed.