SigmaTel

For at most 11 years I didn't buy myself a new laptop of any vendor because of the chiclet keyboard or non-hotswappable battery or both. Well, the urge of buying a small and lightweight device overweight the dissatisfaction. I didn't want to buy any of the Dell laptops specifically as I had horrible impressions of their consumer-tier series I used to see in models produced in models from 2000s. Still consider the Dell Inspiron 1300 an etalon though. So I took the risk and after a long chatter with the seller, I got the subject device. Not a Ryzen 7 based one but Ryzen 5 works fairly well for me. Of course, Windows 11 on 8 GB is a disaster and I intended to replace the bundled RAM for two sticks of 32 GB, which I did. Just a pair of Microns. Coming back to the keyboard, I bought this laptop as a replacement for my Dell Latitude 5179 2-in-1. I couldn't believe that Dell didn't screw up the keyboard per tactile experience and it felt even slightly better than the Latitude 5179 one. But making the right Ctrl key the Copilot key? Uh, that's the global trend. That sucks. Lack of 8P8C connector as well. Battery wise, 5 hours from full charge under mixed workload with some debugging in Visual Studio 2026 is a decent result for this thin thing. Wish it had USB4 so I could connect a more interesting dGPU to put the integrated graphics aside. 🤣 Successors to this laptop have RAM soldered to the board which is a crime. Unless I missed some model that is >=15" in size and may lack 2-in-1 form factor. On the peripherals, I had bought Dell PN7522W active pen which was claimed to be incompatible with this laptop. Yet it works just fine. But be careful when picking a place where to hold it against the chassis: if you do it by right hand, there is a magnetic sensor used to detect if the lid was closed. Instead, attach it by right hand of the screen part. Also there is no need to have Bluetooth connected all the time if you don't use the top button on it.