How and why I stopped buying new laptops
The 11" Macbook Air <i>solved</i> the laptop form factor.<p>Thin, light, very portable, USB ports <i>on each side</i>, headphone jack and an external monitor port (in this case, thunderbolt).<p>Could there be some refinements to my 2015 MBA ?  Certainly - the two type-A USB ports could <i>remain type A</i> but be upgraded to USB3 ... you could add a USB-C port on each side in place of the magsafe and lightning ports and gain the ability to charge on either side.<p>But that's it.  <i>Great job, apple - you solved this form factor</i>.<p>However, for reasons other than functionality or user-experience, Apple continues to fiddle and fuddle and muck around with laptops - making them weird and unwieldy in the best case, and totally unusable in the worst cases.  In the case of USB ports exclusively on one side of the laptop, <i>the only response can be merciless ridicule</i>.<p>We need to actually coin a word to describe "company solved their use-case wonderfully and can't resist fiddling around with it for reasons that don't align with their user-base*.<p>"Special Edition-ed"[1] comes to mind ...<p>[1] <a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Star_Wars_Trilogy_Special_Edition" rel="nofollow">https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Star_Wars_Trilogy_Speci...</a>