"The absence of at least one standard USB port is really annoying, you need an adapter to plug in just about anything, a thumb drive, a phone, a mouse." Agreed

"The absence of at least one standard USB port is really annoying, you need an adapter to plug in just about anything, a thumb drive, a phone, a mouse." Agreed. I am not the owner of any new mac laptop for this specific reason. My current 11" MBA is has a lot of utility with a standard USB port on each side and it's not that uncommon that I need both of them simultaneously. For instance, I get a very large file on a USB attached device and need to move it up to the network and my ethernet dongle would be 10x faster than wifi ...