Those are merely your own personal preferences, not necessarily everyone else's.

For example, I really *like* having keyboard soft RF switches (but not separate physical switches), and am especially fond of the Wifi/BT leds on the notebook here.

And the touchpad, especially smaller ones, MUST be centered on the main keyboard, not the chassis. Otherwise it gets hit with the heel of the hand far too often for my liking.

VGA connectors are (still!) incredibly useful on notebooks for business use, as even in 2010 a VGA plug is the standard for connecting to a conference room projector. Having to carry an extra dongle for that is very inconvenient. But it could also be useful for the notebook to have an HDMI port in addition to the VGA port.

I'm with you on the rest, though.