Honey, I Decapitated the MacBook

Your disclaimer aside, patents are becoming as lost as democracy, sold to the highest bidder.

Not only does this exact thing (not something similar) already exist:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/

But patents are supposed to pass a novelty criterion, not something obvious to someone in the industry.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/102

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/103

That patent is for a laptop without a screen.

The law is like the points on Who's Line is it Anyway?, it doesn't matter unless you have money. It drives me mad that one can read the law, which reads plain as day, and then you see it directly violated in the most obvious ways possible. What is even the point of patents these days besides giving more power to our corporate oligarchs?

It is an application for a patent, not a grant of patent. It's not clear if it makes any exclusivity claims on the basic concept or is just about the specific implementation details. That is one problem with patents, it's hard to interpret their scope unless you speak the particular patent dialect. I do wish that the patent system would require references to prior art and specific callouts about how this application is different.