Another upside is laptop chips suck less power but still perform ok in most use cases, especially without a graphical load. The monitor and keyboard allow easy

Another upside is laptop chips suck less power but still perform ok in most use cases, especially without a graphical load. The monitor and keyboard allow easy interfacing if needed plus ports are often convenient too. even just eSATA for more storage. I run a uSFF HP box for my hypervisor and a low power J5005 core in my NAS and am more than happy with the performance let alone minimal power usage. Sure the J5005 system takes ages to update requiring a backup DC/PiHole setup on the HyperVisor but it just works at low cost.