It's actually for my mum. Went for the 4700U APU based one as it is about as cheap as the later quad cores and comes with WiFi 6 and 2.5GbE networking. Added a 1TB SN770 WD Black SSD and 32GB of 3200MHz DDR4 and the whole thing came to £515 from Amazon. I could have halved the ram and SSD size, but I figured the cost savings weren't worth the hassle of possibly needing a future upgrade.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Mini-P...dp/B097BVLM6W/
Such a beast of a machine in such a tiny box
She was talking about getting a laptop to replace the large desktop machine that she doesn't really have space for, and I suggested this might be a better solution. She doesn't need portability (she has an Android tablet for that) and has a keyboard and screen that she's happy with. I've always found laptops an awful form factor for staying on the same bit of desk because I always end up plugin in an external display and keyboard and shutting the lid of the laptop. So this is basically a docked laptop, compressed into a tiny space because it doesn't have a screen, keyboard or battery that would never be used anyway. It has a VESA mount with it, though at this size she might just leave it on top of the desk.
It replaces and old Xeon quad core with I think 8GB of ram and my old 8800GT graphics card. Hopefully she'll like it.