I am one of those people that don't care what something looks like, as long as I can plug it into my docking station and occasionally use it stand-alone. However, I can see your ergonomics and "general slickness" point as I've had some work laptops in the past that had the worst keyboard layouts or the touch-pad was placed weirdly or I had to do the Contra cheat code on the keyboard to incant the proper spell to get it to startup properly. I work on a personal laptop that is ~3 years old and I don't think I'll need to replace it ever, since I can replace parts and it's faster than I will ever need for my use cases.