The laptop that finally gave up on ports shipped this quarter with exactly one hole: the charger. No USB, no headphone jack, no card reader. Just a slab and a dongle future the rest of the industry kept pretending it didn’t want.
It’s either the bravest design call of the year or the dumbest, and the early reviews can’t decide. But the fact that people are arguing about it at all means the question — how many holes does a computer actually need — was overdue for someone to answer out loud.
