Much production IT equipment in industrial and many other settings is what I described. It's a mature, commonplace form factor. It's in cars (without keyboards), control rooms, server racks ...

That said, I don't know why they use laptops, and it doesn't look like you do either.

I’m not making things up. Much has been written about the use of PC on spacecraft. As it turns out, PCs make good PCs:

https://gizmodo.com/how-astronauts-use-laptops-on-the-intern...

https://web.archive.org/web/20160526014418/https://www.techr...