The whole point of the review was as a lead into the part about the keyboard changes. All the posts arguing about how the Z21 is awesome are missing the point of the article.
The article mention every single bad point of the review of the Z21 as a basement of how Apple is awesome for not changing design over the years.
Besides not being true; the basement; is totally flawed. (regardless of being more technical than pure design)
Thus everyone criticizes that base. Makes sense to me. No base, no article.
Its not about apple not changing, it's about apple knowing when not to change. Sony can make a good product, but when they do it doesn't influence future products. New products don't learn from either the failures or the successes of past designs.
Whether whatever laptop you like is good or not is irrelevant to the authors point, just as it is irrelevant to the products that follow it.
http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/11/sony-vaio-z/
The whole point of the review was as a lead into the part about the keyboard changes. All the posts arguing about how the Z21 is awesome are missing the point of the article.