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Atlas is a Dell Latitude 14 7480 which was purchased on eBay. I intend it to replace Deimos for my daily laptop, as the latter is too unwieldy. Plus macOS on Intel is on its way out and Linux cannot sleep properly with it due to firmware issues.
Therefore... meet Atlas. Its boring, black exterior means it wouldn't stand out to most people, but that's because it's a business machine. Despite its seemingly lackluster specs that wouldn't meet requirements in the business world today, it works for me. And it even gets 45 FPS average in Minecraft, too.
The keyboard is actually a really nice typing experience to me, and I dare say it beats Deimos' keyboard. It's backlit, too - perfect. There's a Dell-ified TrackPoint nub in the centre which kinda sucks because I hate them and I can't seemingly disable it in Linux - I'll have to check the BIOS. The trackpad on the other hand is pretty good. It still has physical separate buttons, but they're decent buttons. Not crap buttons.
Its display... I got the better option. It's a 1920x1080 IPS panel, but Dell offered it with a 1366x768 TN panel too. No thanks.
Its SSD and RAM that are installed are all HP OEM, so they must've been pulled from another system. I'm actually using the included SSD because it's shockingly in pretty good shape with low read / write counts and only 1600 power-on hours.
Ask Ubuntu: How do I turn off the TrackPoint from within Wayland?