Thanks for your input. I appreciate it.

Which battery did you buy (if you bought one, of course)? Any recommendations or anti-recommendations? Official batteries usually go for extortionate prices, but aftermarket batteries are a little scary since you can’t tell what quality you’re going to get until it’s too late.

Thanks for the thorough response. It helps a lot.

How is the Wi-fi on your laptop? Did you have to do something hacky to get it to work, or did the Arch kernel just recognize everything nicely?