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I travel frequently. Thinness is absolutely a significant mobility factor. I actually hate thinness for the sake of being thin, I want practical amounts of USB
by Dalewyn 2y ago
I travel frequently. Thinness is absolutely a significant mobility factor.
I actually hate thinness for the sake of being thin, I want practical amounts of USB-A ports and a god damn headphone jack. But a thinner laptop is easier to stow in my luggage and handle in space-limited environments like a hotel room desk or a seat table in an airliner or lounge.
Likewise, I don't want a chungus portable phone from 1993, but I also want my smartphone to be thick enough to reasonably grasp and have a headphone jack.
This is also putting aside the fact that most people in general clearly prefer thinner and lighter computing over thicker and/or heavier.
There are times and places for a bigly desktop replacement tabletop heavy enough to crush your kneecaps and hot enough to burn your skin, but most people don't need that.