While I certainly agree building your own PC is a great thing to do, there's an elephant in the room that the author doesn't address: laptops outsell desktops by 2:1 (see [0]) and that trend is only strengthening.

> An example is the “lightning” connector that was first introduced on the iPhone 7 and replaced the old 3.5mm headphone jack.

... Also probably could've done with a smidgen more fact-checking.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/272595/global-shipments-...