- thrifty people who do iterative upgrades You can have a win-win combination of high quality components, high performance components, and a low cost device by

- thrifty people who do iterative upgrades You can have a win-win combination of high quality components, high performance components, and a low cost device by reuse and iterative upgrades. - family members of such people Since they may get the hand me down parts. Also, it's nice not to have battery fatigue unnecessarily. I'm sure if I used a laptop as if it were a desktop I'd be replacing its battery at least once through its lifecycle.