Mini Computers: Worth it?

I was always interested into 'Micro' or 'Mini' technology. These tend to add extra portability for things that you normally wouldn't bring to a friend's house [You don't want to grab your PC, Monitor and other crap and bring it to your friend's house, do you?]
They have good sides and bad sides. Usually they have more bad sides but what do you want from a HDMI Stick PC, or a Mini Computer? If you didn't know, they're also knows as 'Steam box' but unlike your usual Mini PC, they atleast have decent processors in them.

Let's look into cons & pros of these:
Cons:

• Usually high price for a piece full of old technology

Most expensive ones tend to go even for $700 and all they include is i3 Mobile processor or Junior Processors.
Most companies especially put Android Dual-boot just to increase price [There's a Android Installer for x86 devices and they just use x86 port of Android like recent 6.0 port]
They also sometimes put Cherry Trail/Bay Trail CPU's [Z83xx/Z37xx] and that's your typical Windows tablet you can see and buy for $200 on eBay or BangGood.

• No cooling [Mini HDMI Sticks]

No cooling means decreased performance and it actually shortens life of your HDMI sticks due to it overheating itself. Most of these include atleast one Radiator to keep performance at atleast usable state.

• No swappable eMMC/SSD [Some Mini PCs/Every HDMI Stick]

Big minus. Some Mini PCs include HDD and that's what mostly kills them! If you want a Mini PC, you want your system to boot quicker so you can get your stuff done and shut it down! HDMI Sticks tend to have 32GB min. so that's not an issue unless you're working on word or in a company and alot of storage space is needed then you're out of luck. Better just go to your workplace and say you didn't do x project and get fired for that.

I would list more cons but I forgot most of these so... Let's jump right into Pro's

• Portability [Take it anywhere, plug it and play]

Those who travel alot value options like that. You could just go to your nearest Hotel and watch your favorite movies there [Yeah, i know what you sick perverts watch at night] or you can plug it and play some games on it, many possibility's!

• Multitasking at small cost [Yeah i don't need to explain it unless it has 2GB of RAM]
• Easy data transfering [Plug in Pendrive, copy whatever you want to it and plug it in another PC!]
• Mini Gaming Device which can play games from 2008

Now onto that real question: Is it worth it?
Personally, i think yes/no.
Yes being that it has extreme portability and you can carry it anywhere, play movies, music in just 3 steps [Plug-in power cord, plug in HDMI, turn on TV] This can enchance your experience by 100% and make your life easier.
No being that If you plan to game on stuff like these, then you will be out of luck. Performance these give are worse than your Dual-core Intel Pentium processor. [Not that bad but you can get what i'm saying right?] If you're looking to game, then just get a Laptop instead. These are cheaper and you can run more games than you can on slightly outdated Mini PC. [osu! runs on everything so you can play osu! but you can't play Stardew Valley for example on these] They also defeat the whole purpose of performance since they heavily overheat, decreasing performance even more over time.

I will probably buy one of these and check if they atleast can run simple programs.
Usual Question to you Temp: Did you buy one of these and enjoyed using it and for what did you use it? [HDMI Stick/Mini PC]
And like always, see you in another boring blog post!