Thin clients used to be abysmal dogshit for visualization/gaming that wasn't 15 years or older, or desktop applications designed for a Pentium MMX. These were computers that didn't even have the 'Core M' of laptops, but Geodes and SiS graphics. The only moment their performance began being usable for more than just spreadsheets was the death march of Intel Atom chips from Bay Trail all the way into Jasper Lake. This stretch slowly over the course of a decade pushed their performance from Core2Duo equivalent to a mid-high tier Ivy Bridge quad core. And this is why Alder Lake-N reaching a performance equivalence to Haswell-Skylake meant chinese OEMs were instantly drooling to pump mini PCs with these out. IIRC some like Morefine were desperate enough to work and release through Chinese New Year.
>but this company has PCIe slots and expandable RAM bus!
Adding a GPU meant either extremely limited capacity where even an RX 6400 would be pushing it, or breakout eGPU kludges that are likely unable to make full use of both a serious GPU and data throughput.
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>A modded Wii has more going for it than a Thin Client
Potentially this, as the large pool of consoles means that any extra parts for repair or upgrade should still be circulating for several more years.