The difference decades of progress can make.

Only kind of. The machine on the left is a Colby Walkmac, which was a rare beast even back in the day and only sold in the thousands. And it wasn’t really a laptop; it was a luggable (though it kind of straddled the line because it was in fact battery powered).

Laptops from 1987 looked more like this:

1987 mass market laptops didn’t have so many ports as that, either. Usually 3-4, which is still far better than the one pitiful USB-C port many have now. (USB-C sucks.)