Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,uk.d-i-y Subject: Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:17:34 +0100 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <89nhdb-6sh.ln1@squidward.local.dionic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net DWdiTLFBg0tsculxcnwJ/g0sM42hr5aMdjSFKg9Fvt18qwVvzU X-Orig-Path: squidward.local.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:WSNJa3rRctBIa9xmk/K8SD+RcxI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:11904 On 03/09/14 08:57, chris wrote: > On 02/09/2014 21:52, Tim Watts wrote: >> How do you find the TP? > > Sorry, I don't have one. A colleague does and I've not heard him > complain about the touchpad. > > Personally, I always use an external mouse for day-to-day usage. When I > do use a touchpad I hate physical buttons and get really frustrated when > I borrow someone else's laptop which has buttons. I have to use it on the train (no space for amouse) - but I do use an external KB and mouse when at home. >> Mediabay adaptor - like I did with the Lenovo. I never use the DVD so >> that gets pulled out. > > Is that still possible with current laptops? More and more manufacturers > are moving to the ultrabook model where nothing is user upgradeable (not > even RAM!). The Latitude E6xxx models *do* have a mediabay (even Dell have HDDs in bay adaptors, just don't sell the adaptor empty, but you can get clones from people like NewModus). I believe with the E6xxx series, everything is very accessible from underneath: http://prohardver.hu/dl/cnt/2014-03/107212/pic/dell_latitude_e6440_inside_b.jpg