How and why I stopped buying new laptops
The 11" Macbook Air solved the laptop form factor.Thin, light, very portable, USB ports on each side, headphone jack and an external monitor port (in this case, thunderbolt).Could there be some refinements to my 2015 MBA ?  Certainly - the two type-A USB ports could remain type A 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.But that's it.  Great job, apple - you solved this form factor.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, the only response can be merciless ridicule.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*."Special Edition-ed"[1] comes to mind ...[1] https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Star_Wars_Trilogy_Speci...