[bitsandboots]

- 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.