> It has literally all the advantages of a wireless setup
...except for the main advantage, which is the wireless setup's entire reason for existence?
How often do you put a wireless mouse or keyboard somewhere you wouldn't also put a wired mouse or keyboard? It seems to me the ergonomics are likely to be the same for most cases.
Fair enough if you think wireless is advantageous in this case but I personally don't. Or if it is, it doesn't outweigh the disadvantage of having a mouse that can run out of juice.
This trend in laptop design towards providing fewer ports for what seems to be little more than aesthetics seems a bit backwards.