There are no good laptops anymore

Rant Incoming!

So my ThinkPad T500 is showing its age a little bit as of recently, mainly in web browsing. It gets quite hot, and can get quite slow on bloated sites like YouTube. I am also very concerned about the hinges going, which killed my last T500, so I have been in the market for a new laptop.

I was initially looking at some newer ThinkPads like the X201, but then I thought, I have had these machines before, I have basically owned all the major ThinkPad models pre T430, and I know if the T500 is slow they will also be slow.

So I was expanding my horizons, looking at Panasonic Lets Notes, Dell Latitudes, HP Elitebooks, etc. But all of these laptops have major flaws , usually one of the following:

They have soldered components (I can just about cope with a soldered CPU)
They are massive and ugly
No trackpoint (not the end of the world but is highly annoying)
No optical drive and lack of ports in general
Shitty keyboards (this basically goes for every single modern laptop)

I know its a bit nit picky wanting all of these features in a laptop, but then again just think, the laptops of 20 years ago had all of these features, why is it so hard to implement now?!?!?!

My T500 has replacable components, a trackpoint, an optical drive, all the ports you would ever need, a great keyboard, and it is pretty big but its sleek. Why is it so difficult to make a laptop with modern hardware like this?

Update

For now I think I am going to stay with the T500, unless something good crops up and I have the money (which something has cropped up). I have found a ThinkPad T520 on Ebay for £140 with Libreboot installed and me_cleaner run. This seems like a good deal to be honest and I might pick it up, I had a T500 in the past and I ended up selling it because it felt flimsy compared to my T400 which I had at the time.