When I see this type of marvels I stare at my mobile phone and think about the amount of wasted power. Such powerful hardware should be able to let me do a lot of things and instead it doesn't.
In line with that, it’s crazy to think how portable 8-bits could once be powered off standard AA batteries…
Oh, even 32-bit machines (the pre-ARM Palm PDAs in the 1990s which used the 32-bit Dragonball processor) used standard alkaline batteries (3 AAAs)
Maybe not 8-bit, but my HP 200LX runs months on 2 AAs and is only moderately bulkier (thicker) than a modern smartphone. With a CF card you can have hundreds of excellent DOS programs/games on it.
Is it battery life and thermals?
That too!
Maximum power dissipation 0.79 Watt
99% of compute power is wasted. You just know a 1GHz Z80 mobile phone with SymbOS would be smooth as silk...