"The only real performance disappointment is the SSD, which is only SATA"
You mean
benchmark disappointment. Half the game load times I've seen continue to
look like this and
this.
Still it's nice to see manufacturers produce Mini-ITX cases which can finally be called "Small" Form Factor. The large 'short and fat' 10-12" wide cube designs continue to unimpress me being both too short to comfortably reach the USB ports when placed on the floor (and half of them having dumb side-facing port placement like the Prodigy), and end up using more desk space (footprint) than most small Micro-ATX towers. Hopefully we'll see more "narrow and shallow" vertical oriented Mini-ITX short towers. If the purpose is to free up desk space, it still makes far more sense to stand it on the floor completely out of the way.