What I think is really telling is that the complainers clearly REALLY want this device, which certainly says something.
They won't consider a MBP, they want THIS machine, just slightly...more...like...the MBP. It's very confusing that they need to redesign one product clearly not meant to be a port laden high end power house, when Apple already offers the machine they want.
Except this machine would be ideal for my uses with two USB ports - it ticks every other box; weight, form factor, RAM, screen size and resolution
I don't need anything that a MBP pro has to offer over this machine other than a port to plug the thing in when necessary while (depending on where I am/what I'm doing) still having access to a wired ethernet controller or a sentinel USB dongle at same time.
Instead its lug around an MBP as I have done for past few years or go back to the macbook Air; both of which are heavier, bulkier, have a larger footprint and a slew of completely superfluous features for the job I have them do
It's the so near but so far that I find frustrating (and I suspect a number of other folks too)
In the past I've generally been quite happy to buy a new shiny apple box every twelve months and pass the old one on but not now; little point in buying another one and retiring the old one if the only replacement options are no better fit than the one I already have I'll just hold on to the current one till it eventually gets so beaten up it just has to be replaced (or hell freezes over and they offer a 2 port ultra-lightweight machine)