Gadgets

The laptop port comeback is really a story about professional users

After years of aggressive simplification, notebook makers are restoring the connections that photographers, developers and creators kept asking for.

Thin laptops once treated every physical connector as an obstacle. The market has adjusted. Memory-card slots, full-size display outputs and additional charging ports are returning.

Measured by the whole desk

A laptop that requires three adapters may be thinner in isolation but creates a larger, less reliable working setup. Manufacturers are finally evaluating portability as a system rather than a single measurement.

Imani Cole
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