It's got a mass of relatively expensive hardware components that have (almost( never been included in a laptop form factor and certainly not together. Novena can replace quite a few expensive discrete tools and do it in something that can be comfortable carried around and modded. What you're asking is basically why a full shop with a CNC mill installed in a large truck is so much more expensive than a nice pickup when the latter can go much faster and is a lot more comfortable. They share a category and vaguely similar basic shapes, but they're not really the same thing and you don't use them as if they are. Is that a helpful analogy?