Because I would normally put the Thinkpad in a "a design only an engineer could love" category.
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x/c/t...
The primary design element is that they are black, other than that they are sort of generic (and hey, a black computer is pretty generic).
Because I would normally put the Thinkpad in a "a design only an engineer could love" category.