Rogue Amoeba blog:

Back in mid-2018, there wasn’t a single Macintosh computer that was free of major drawbacks or otherwise ridiculously out of date. After yet another disappointing WWDC, I took to my keyboard to air some grievances, with a lengthy complaint entitled “On The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware“. That post was written out of a deeper frustration with Apple’s failure to keep the Mac product line current.

Here’s a link to that original disappoint WWDC post.

Oh, how times have changed:

Apple in 2018 was at the height of their quest to remove every port, selling a MacBook that offered a pitiful single USB-C port (which was also needed for charging). Other laptops were besmirched by TouchBars and faulty butterfly keyboards. Apple is not a company to change its mind lightly, but nevertheless they’ve corrected every single one of these missteps.

Well said. There’s the return of the SD port, the return of the MagSafe connector, that gorgeous new Liquid Retina XDR display, and the scary fast M1 Pro and M1 Max with the unified memory and embedded GPU. The new Mac line is a whole new ball game.