105W is not astonishingly bad;
Yeah you're right. The correct word would be fucking atrocious and physically unworkable in an enclosure only 1cm thick.
I expect my portable computers to be just that: Portable computers. I do the same things with a portable computer as I do with a desktop computer.
Then buy an Alienware desktop replacement. Just don't come back and complain it costs more than $500, weighs more, or is thicker or heavier.
I doubt this new Atom part is even as fast as my (even more ancient) 1.83GHz, 2MB cache, single-core Pentium-M laptop at these tasks.
Why doubt when you could simply type Pentium M into the search box and see that not a single Pentium M based PC beat it in single-core benchmarks?
Perhaps I am a corner-case in that I actually want a CPU to be "fast" compared to products from a decade or so ago, especially if the device is bigger than a cell phone. I'm not buying anything slower than what I already have.
You're not a corner case. You're simply clueless in matters of engineering, reality, and lack the realisation that there's more people in the world than yourself who would much prefer something small, light, can run all day without power, and still do pretty much most of the common tasks that don't require a modern workstation or gaming rig to perform.