No — they are complaining that the keyboard is parallel to the table - most people prefer the back to be slightly raised. Apple’s desktop keyboard is wedge shaped for example.
Back in the day, Apple used to sell laptops with little feet you could flip out to raise the back up. That wasn’t necessary with a wedge shaped laptop but they’ve gone away from that.
is the author seriously complaining about 3 mm added thickness on one side of a 2 kilogram notebook, or am I missing the joke here?
No — they are complaining that the keyboard is parallel to the table - most people prefer the back to be slightly raised. Apple’s desktop keyboard is wedge shaped for example.
Back in the day, Apple used to sell laptops with little feet you could flip out to raise the back up. That wasn’t necessary with a wedge shaped laptop but they’ve gone away from that.
it’s on par for tech journalism