If you can live without the dedicated GPU for the media center, you can get an Intel CPU instead, which have QuickSync for media transcoding. It will use a fraction of the power a dedicated GPU does with the same workload.
That's likely the place you can gain most power effeciency.
It seems to use the 2.4 GHz wireless frequency, which is notoriously overcrowded with wifi, bluetooth and all manor of wireless connections. Any of these will lessen the stable connection length. So do you use other wireless devices in the area between your mouse and the PC?
Only reason I got it, was because it was cheaper than the Red Hat one and my employer just needed me to get a Linux certificate. So the cheapest was what I got.
As far as I understand it, it's more of a push to wayland by default and not about harming x11 users. I for one would like to avoid having kwin-x11 pushed to my system.
Same here. My N100 box is running multiple websites/blogs, nextcloud, jellyfin, home assistant and a bunch of other small things.