Yeah it'd be nice if they actually standardized some of the architecture so we could see some upgrades but I suppose they would sell fewer laptops if they did that.
I doubt that they would sell less laptops but the variation of the models will be cut down, think about it how many normal users take time to upgrade there desktop?
While I earned the money for my new desktop, Im raising my standards to like 2000 instead of 1400, I wanted to ugprade my laptop to work well and play simple games like empires 3, its alright right now but I wish I could make it faster, maybe a new hardrive and some ram?