It's like people want to show what they care about rather than how much they spent on the hardware... There may be a reason.

Another analogy: it’s like painting a gold toilet your favorite color of hot pink. You’re not exactly trying to show off a toilet right?

yeah, its exactly like that. if that is something you want to do, you should do it.

I mean, if a Lamborghini was designed to be as boring-looking as possible. Modern laptops are, generally, a metal or plastic rectangle, sometimes slightly curved. They are the most generic-looking objects imaginable; it's not surprising that they attract a certain amount of this.