Can you expand on this? Trusting a VPN is equivalent to trusting the VPN provider. As long as you believe the VPN provider is more trustworthy than the network you're tunneling through, I don't see why trusting VPN is bad practice.
I agree that the improvements like the ESC key and 16" screen are good things.
But is it strange to anyone else that a company that prides itself on being innovative and motto is "think different" is parading around a screen size change and a keyboard regression as the biggest selling points for a product launch?