For the first time, I don't love it ➹

A well-written take from someone who skipped The Great Keyboard Nightmare Years and is comparing a new MacBook to the 2013 Air.

The webcam bit hits the nail in the head, but there are a lot of excellent points being made here. Port placement, the touchbar, and basic ergonomics have all been issues with the “ultra slim” designs, and now that they’ve “fixed” (read: regressed) the keyboard, this seems like a great list of things to address in the next redesigns.

(It is certainly ironic that I am typing this post on a Surface Laptop 2, which has none of those problems whatsoever, except that the headphone jack, although being on the left side, is not in fact close to the front–there would be no room for it there given its tapered wedge shape…)