I bought this for two purposes: Streaming video from apps (such as Disney Plus and WWE Network and Youtube) and as a quiet device to output lossless audio to an external DAC. It passes both of these tests with flying colors. I did some light multi-tasking while installing all of my programs and it handled them just fine.I noticed a huge difference in audio quality via the USB output (using the Schitt Audio driver and Foobar as the playback program, combined with Fidelizer). Very quiet, very clean and detailed. Not sure to attribute this to the SSD or the fanless operation, but compared to the laptop I replaced, it did the job. I love having access to my familiar Windows programs.For $200, hard to top this for these purposes. You're paying for convenience and small form factor instead of power.