She arrived! My new Dell laptop. A Latitude. So far, I’ve noticed that it’s nice and fast, much quicker than my old Dell, but contrary to my expectations, it’s not faster than my MacBook. Starting up and shutting down takes more time, and a restart takes much longer than the Mac. Normal software runs comparably, nice and fast. Games like Minecraft (the only one I’ve installed) do work, but they’re a bit choppy. It’s not a super-graphics-intensive game, but on the Snapdragon, it runs disappointingly. A local AI runs super-fast, much better than on the Mac.
I did notice that the laptop got faster after I cleaned up all the preinstalled Dell software. I only left the dell-updater, and the rest went to the trash.