As someone with an n100, I did have to spend on an apple TV to have a hardware accelerated client for some of the harder to transcode content (h265 4k at higher bit rates). N100 will absolutely choke on some of those even with hardware acceleration enabled.

Even America’s test kitchen compares air fryers to mini convection ovens from what I recall. I’d trust them over someone random that seems to just want to be technically correct. The main advantage they have is the small area which can heat up quicker, but the way the function is equivalent for most definitions.