Depends on the manufacturer, of course. Apple's laptop visual design over the last decade or so has been basically conservative, but you can really see the imp

Depends on the manufacturer, of course. Apple's laptop visual design over the last decade or so has been basically conservative, but you can really see the improvement from the original MacBook Pro from 2006: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/MacBook_Pro_situated_on_a_wooden_table.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/MacBook_P... to the unibody one in 2008: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Unibody_MacBook_Pro.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Unibody_M... Today's MacBook Pros look quite similar to that one (aside from being much thinner), but the light has been dropped, the power button has moved to the keyboard, and the "MacBook Pro" branding below the screen has been removed, resulting in a slightly cleaner look. The new MacBook is a more dramatic change: it will bring the branding back, offer three metal colors, and cram the keyboard into the body in a way that looks slightly awkward to me, but has the obvious advantage of minimizing the physical size of the device. Time will tell how well its design holds up. http://images.apple.com/v/macbook/b/overview/images/overview_keyboard_on_medium_2x.jpg http://images.apple.com/v/macbook/b/overview/images/overview... (No stickers, of course!)