Now to be fair, that Gateway Destination system includes an enormous (for the time) 31" CRT (no doubt absurdly heavy) monitor. But I know what you mean. In 1993 I paid $3k for a 486 DX2-66 with a 15-inch monitor, 16 MB RAM, and 340 MB hard drive and even then the modem and sound card were purchased separately later (though it did include a 1x CD-ROM).

Does seem like a nice deal on that laptop. The only real negative is the lack of dedicated graphics but of course that only really matters if you are going to be gaming or doing the kind of stuff you would want a professional workstation for. I mean an i7 would be nice too...