These versions strip away the following components to achieve "Lite" status:

Let's look at typical numbers on a low-end laptop (Intel Pentium N3540, 4GB DDR3, 120GB SSD):

For three months, the Dell Inspiron was a god. Artyom edited 4K video on it. He compiled a Linux kernel in a VM while playing Minecraft with shaders. He left it running for 28 days straight. The click from the hard drive stopped. It was as if the hard drive had finally relaxed.