^ Do you have some niche need or is this just emerging OCD?
I repair more than anyone I’ve ever met, yet I appreciate the higher integration that allows for much smaller devices.
I do hate the connector shrink to USB-C, feeling that the enhanced capabilities were long to come, but not while simultaneously shrinking the connector size, and more importantly the socket PCB solder joint durability, but otherwise it seems like just shifting the cost of upgrades.
Why pay a premium for a big heavy laptop, instead of only what you need on the go? Make backups, restore to new laptop, except for that idea that you need a high spec gaming laptop. That seems like a highly subjective if not unrealistic need.
I’ve never been in a situation where I had time to kill on the go, so I only had a laptop, and thought to myself, “I should start playing a modern 3D game right now”.
If you live in a college dorm and simply can’t fit a desktop gaming system into that space, then I understand. Otherwise, all this nonsense to run some laptop gaming *thing*, it seems like a ridiculous waste.
A laptop is either as portable as possible, or else what was the point? Durability yes, but that is not dependent on this topic’s issue.
I agree with the idea that USB-C is not mechanically and sometimes electrically fit for a lot of applications that it’s being forced onto.