Q: Since I don’t want to pay for cpu, memory etc, what hardware feature am I willing to pay for?
A: Touchscreen + screen size! Also battery

Touchscreen is a proven productivity feature.

For the tiny laptop, touch-screen is less valuable. Usage is usually short-duration, below an hour in most instances.

However, when using the tiny laptop in office, the touch-screen convenience might help me avoid sending emails out of MLP