also someone actually gave a shit (a lost art) while designing the device, as a result of which it's probably my single most cherished electronic device now. not because of the specs or the price or anything, but just because it warms my soul to interact with something that has had so much effort and intentionality put into it. (i see the fact that it's good for running games as a happy downstream consequence of that)

for example: the specs are underwhelming if you look at the numbers... until you realize that it was designed by picking the display first, then picking a GPU that can drive the display within a given power envelope, then bolting a CPU to the side that's just powerful enough to feed the GPU. this isn't how anybody designs laptops for example. (i think some gaming laptops are better but generally the system integrators don't seem to design these things so much as just slap the roof of the latest reference design, make thermals inexplicably worse, and call it a day)