One thing I wonder about is whether Apple could have ever built the current crop of laptops if it hadn't gone through the terrible design that over-emphasized m

One thing I wonder about is whether Apple could have ever built the current crop of laptops if it hadn't gone through the terrible design that over-emphasized minification. That is, were there gains in space-saving that were only possible because of the single-minded focus on making small laptops, which we now enjoy in our more-sensibly sized MBPs? As an outsider, I have no idea whether this is the case. But I could imaging that if they had stayed on a more evolutionary design path, their current laptops might not be quite so amazing.