How much RAM is involved? Windows needs at least 4G for reasonable performance, and maybe more depending on how you use it. My experience has been that yes, it is a little slower, but normally not so much so as to discourage me, but then again you’re talking a laptop form factor, and laptop CPUs are rarely very performant. If it were for desktop only use, I’d encourage you to build a mini-pc like the one I “reviewed” A review, of sorts, of the Asrock DeskMini A300 but of course that’s hardly a “free” solution.