It's true it's a bit of a novelty. If I had a laptop in the niche you described, it would cover some of the use cases I used it on. It is much smaller and ligh

It's true it's a bit of a novelty. If I had a laptop in the niche you described, it would cover some of the use cases I used it on. It is much smaller and lighter than my laptop, which also has horrible battery life in Linux. It didn't cost as much as that laptop either. I was able to use it for 1. A quick screen/keyboard for a raspberry pi, the PinePhone I mentioned, and a Mac mini, 2. Taking notes during TTRPG sessions while having my app-only (at the time) character builder on the same screen, 3. One-off tasks on my phone suited to a larger screen and keyboard (e.g. responding to an email chain that started to need a longer explanations without having to log in to another computer), 4. Browsing and looking things up on the couch, and 5. Third monitor for my laptop at my desk, and a second monitor for my laptop while traveling. It was nice to not have to log into something else or transfer files back and forth between my phone and another computer. It also has a headphone jack, which my phone did not. So there were several small niches where it worked OK, none where it excelled.