[coldtea]

>It's not about keeping the same form factor forever, that's unrealistic.

It's not that unrealistic, if we constraint forever to like 10-15 years.

In a lot of laptops I'd rather they keep most of the ports (and just e.g. update USB2 to USB3, and add a few new ones) but keep the form factor the shape.

Often new keyboards (Apple is notorious, but holds for others) are worse than in the previous form factor.

And when they go and "make it thinner", beyond some point, I'd often rather they added more battery, or added a space for an extra use installable SSD, or put bigger speaker cones, or just leave the space inside for better thermal dissipation...