Agreed, that is up to the point that adding memory doesn't make sence if you don't use it.
However I strongly oppose the idea that this are slow computers.
For surfing the web without (streaming) media, text processing, email and other office related tasks a 32Mhz 68000 CPU is plenty, and could run smooth without the user experiencing slowness.
Certainly for playback of mp3 and movie files you need more and different horse power (DSP).
Point is the CPU in these little laptops have 200-300 times the computing power of the 68000 mentioned above, they can do more!
What makes todays operating systems powerhungry is more a matter of 'bad' design, putting interface layer on interface layer and the habit to let the CPU poll its own 'events' and interupts.
Imagine your self at home, every ten minutes or so you walk to a message board to see if there is a message you need to respond to. When the door bell rings you don't open the door, instead you put a message to the board.
Though the m$ stuff is worse, linux is no saint either

My actuall intention is to use these little laptops as hardware basis for something else entierly, the mousepad, keyboard and Linux OS won't be needed and removed, a bit more memory could be nice though.