The difference between Apple and Samsung industrial design
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Another thing: the laptop is thin, which is nice, but if they'd left it literally 1mm thicker - maybe even 0.5mm? - its surface would be perfectly flush with the DisplayPort adapters. As it is, they stick up slightly.
Apple is so obsessed with looks that they'll move components around into suboptimal places just for looks. Meanwhile Samsung are willing to push ports a little bit to make the puzzle pieces fit tighter together.