Unfortunately soldered ram and non replaceable batteries are becoming more common on the ultralights … Thanks Apple

I miss my clitmouse XD

Replying to my own comment to give yall one more tidbit.

The latitude product nomenclature is still standard

• 2 first digits of the model number are the “class” the higher the laptop the more high end
• last 2 digits of the model number are the generation (we are current in 60)

So for example the Latitude 9460 is the very high end laptop that came out at the beginning of this year while the 3540 was the entry level economy latitude that came out in 2023

Hijacking top comment to report that: This is true across the industry for (most) OEMs

The Secret is to buy “Enterprise level”

Check out the LATITUDE line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Latitude

Those are enterprise fleet laptops … the ones they have to support for 5-10 years.

You know which line they don’t discontinue parts for? You know which line has repair manuals and driver updates available? wanna take a wild guess which line is usually more modular and powerful at the expense of being less sleek looking and thin?

And the best part is that you can usually buy them fairly cheap if you find them used.

I prefer Dell Latitude to HP Elitebook, Thinkpads are OK too but they’ve gone down in quality a lot since they got bought by Lenovo

TL;DR = Buy an enterprise level laptop, consumer line laptops are all trash,