I don't understand the objection. If these incredibly useful ports are not present, they cannot be used. If they are present, they can be used, but you don't h

I don't understand the objection. If these incredibly useful ports are not present, they cannot be used. If they are present, they can be used, but you don't have to do so. This isn't a single laptop design: this is a prototype for building lots of different machines. If you want a NUC-style tiny brick computer, you can build one from this. If you want a RAID server, you can build a small one directly or a medium-sized one by adding a PCIe controller. It's never going to appeal to an ultrabook buyer, since it would be really difficult to engineer all the other components for ultra light weight, but you could replace the vast majority of non-gaming cheap laptops with this. Oh, and integrated touchpads are usually connected with PS/2, SMbus or I2C.