I agree that often a decade old laptop is more than enough. I have a Macbook from 2013 which has 2 USB ports, headphone jack, thunderbolt, HDMI and an SDXC car

I agree that often a decade old laptop is more than enough. I have a Macbook from 2013 which has 2 USB ports, headphone jack, thunderbolt, HDMI and an SDXC card slot, which is more than enough for me and it still works great (albeit the battery). But it's an odd comparison taking the Dell latitude and comparing it to a Macbook Air, when the Macbook Air is designed around portability to the max. If you look at the Dell machines of today, you have the Dell XPS which legitimately only has two external ports that are USB-C, then you have the Dell Inspiron which has 2 USB ports, 1 USB type c, headset port, HDMI port and an SD card slot.