Outfitted with 16GB of RAM, 500GB NVMe storage, and a 2nd internal SATA SSD, it's easy to setup as a nice little desktop PC.  Adding whatever else I need via USB is no problem.  I have it connected to my Pluggable Displaylink docking station, so I have an additional display connection to use, as well as more USB ports.  Most of the time I can't even hear that this thing is turned on, only if I run something that increases the CPU load do I hear the fan spin up, and even then it's not loud.  I rarely notice any lag, even when running Windows 7 in a Virtualbox VM and doing other things.  Nice little unit.