Well thin laptops are way lighter, if you only want to take notes at uni it's perfect. The problem is that they cost a shit ton of money because the constructors understood that making a super light computer with midrange smartphone level performance and price would be such a banger that they couldn't make any money off of it. So instead they make them as powerful as possible so people have no choice but to write their thesis on machines that can run videogames for 10 minutes before overheating. That's the stupid part.

Why are you linking to Reddit? If you must steal content from that corporate shithole, paste up the text.

Good luck going to Uni everyday with some ultra thick gaming laptop with 30mins battery life

Dont agree. Thin laptops have a great usecase and I would never drag around anything bigger or heavier.

But I agree they could use easier upgradeability or maintenance.