I'm in a 👏 TREAT YO SELF 👏 mood, so I might buy the Dell XPS 15 (2020) today. I'm just not sure whether to get the 16GB or 32GB. Is it better to splurge now and get it right immediately or to go with 16GB and then upgrade parts of it in a few years?
Use case: office-y stuff, video editing 4K and Goat Simulator/Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Still haven't decided, because I need to assess whether the lack of USB A ports will bother me. Not a fan of the dongle life.
@Gina for me the deal breaker is a lack of an RJ45 jack. I also hate dongles and needing one to use wired ethernet drives me batty. Also USB-C is the worst connector ever.
@Gina I guess that said are there a bunch of USB-A devices you need to use? If you do depends on them consider whether or not you can get USB-C cables for them and hope they work?
@ajmartinez first thing I thought of is my wireless keyboard and mouse.
@Gina ah and I’m guessing those use a USB-A doohicky for the receiver as opposed to BT?
@ajmartinez exactly, a tiny USB A dongle.
@Gina the idea of getting a wee dongle to plug another wee dongle into makes me immediately picture snapping the damned thing off one day doing something important like reaching for another stroopwaffel while watching whichever show I’m binge-background noising while I spend too much time nerding.
@ajmartinez exactly, it's silly that it comes down to such a tiny thing, but that's whats holding me back atm. I hate using trackpads. Why don't laptops come with built-in bluetooth dongle adapters? Like, I can connect any modern device wirelessly to my laptop with built-in Bluetooth stuff, but somehow a mouse requires a psychical dongle to be plugged in?
I wonder how other people do this with USB C only laptops.
@Gina I had a BT mouse I liked a lot once upon a time. No extra dongles needed. I’ve stuck with my 2016 laptop as long as I have because it still has all the things I need. The next machine does too, and I hope that company lasts a long time and keeps offering devices I can use the way I want. I’m willing to pay!
