Every laptop I’ve ever owned I end up replacing because the battery capacity declines (for me, typically every 3-4 years) to the point that I’m afraid to charge it unsupervised.

So it’s not just initial battery life for me, which is about 8+ hours of average use on my new AMD 7840 FW (consisting mostly of web browsing, YouTube watching, and email lately) but when that battery capacity eventually worsens, I can just buy a new battery and easily replace it. To me, that’s a huge factor in its favor.

The screen housing seems a bit flimsy, if that makes sense. I grab a top corner to close the laptop and there is way more flex than I’m comfortable with. Instead, I have gotten in the habit of using the top center to close the laptop.

Like you, I initially didn’t like the 3:2 screen ratio but after just a couple days of using it, I like it FAR better than 16:9 for small form factor laptops and monitors. It is SO SO much more useful.