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- Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.
I have always used a battery powered mouse but the battery covers are always flimsy and if you drop them the batteries always spring out and move at "tonenail clipping speed" i.e. close to Mach 1) and find a nice place to hide under the heaviest sofa or sideboard.
Even when you recover the batteries, the cover is lost in the darkest recesses somewhere.
Upon reassembly, I get top grade duct tape to hold the cover but the covers are cunningly designed so any tape can only over lap by 1mm or less!
Finally, I wailed to unspecified deities and decided to buy a rechargeable mouse. The time you get between charges is only a couple of weeks or so, but mouse still works if plugged in to usb port for charging.
Only problem is mouse is so thin now, the whole mouse can go into hiding under sofa lol.
Even when you recover the batteries, the cover is lost in the darkest recesses somewhere.
Upon reassembly, I get top grade duct tape to hold the cover but the covers are cunningly designed so any tape can only over lap by 1mm or less!
Finally, I wailed to unspecified deities and decided to buy a rechargeable mouse. The time you get between charges is only a couple of weeks or so, but mouse still works if plugged in to usb port for charging.
Only problem is mouse is so thin now, the whole mouse can go into hiding under sofa lol.
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.I9 13th gen i9-13900H 2.60 GHZ16 GB solderedIntegrated Intel Iris XE
- OS
- Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS Zenbook 14
- CPU
- I9 13th gen i9-13900H 2.60 GHZ
- Motherboard
- Yep, Laptop has one.
- Memory
- 16 GB soldered
- Graphics Card(s)
- Integrated Intel Iris XE
- Sound Card
- Realtek built in
- Monitor(s) Displays
- laptop OLED screen
- Screen Resolution
- 2880x1800 touchscreen
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB NVME SSD (only weakness is only one slot)
- PSU
- Internal + 65W thunderbolt USB4 charger
- Case
- Yep, got one
- Cooling
- Stella Artois (UK pint cans - 568 ml) - extra cost.
- Keyboard
- Built in UK keybd
- Mouse
- Bluetooth , wireless dongled, wired
- Internet Speed
- 900 mbs (ethernet), wifi 6 typical 350-450 mb/s both up and down
- Browser
- Edge
- Antivirus
- Defender
- Other Info
- TPM 2.0, 2xUSB4 thunderbolt, 1xUsb3 (usb a), 1xUsb-c, hdmi out, 3.5 mm audio out/in combo, ASUS backlit trackpad (inc. switchable number pad)
Macrium Reflect Home V8
Office 365 Family (6 users each 1TB onedrive space)
Hyper-V (a vm runs almost as fast as my older laptop)




