>>105892505small PCs are shit and always will be shit if you like power. TDP is a power indicator. those shits are 20W or something total. fully load two SSDs in them and they'll throttle. there's no way around it.
what they are good at is being good enough for some shit in that form factor. but they'll always be utter shit compared to a full desktop class CPU+GPU machine. it's pure physics.
unless you are getting them for some media center/browsing bullshit, they'll inevitably always disappoint you for performance. even with external GPU they're still shit compared to a desktop class CPU. cannot cheat physics
mini-PCs are basically slop outside of some cases