This is a fair criticism. Apologies, I was on mobile. To be more specific, I actually found several listings on Startpage mobile, on iOS, but... I can't seem to replicate the results on my desktop :/. It is tricky to find.

but I would of course prefer to find one of the TDP 17 or 19W richland quads.

Technically you can just reconfigure AMD APUs to any TDP/speed you want. They underclock well.

But (speaking as someone who owned several generations of AMD laptops), that's not the problem.

AMD bulldozer APUs were... special. Something about the manifacturing and architecture makes them idle hot even when they are underclocked, undervolted, sitting there doing nothing. The previous generation "llano" CPU with K10.5 cores (like you'd find in a ~2009 Phenom II X4), were more efficient under load, and idled more efficiently.

It is the worst CPU series AMD ever made. It was worse than their initial 2011 APU, which itself was already much slower than ~2011 Intel. This was when everyone thought AMD was going out of business, and their stock price was down to ~$3.

quad core richland

It's basically a Trinity APU, barely updated:

It's not really four cores. Its more like 2 cores that can split themselves into four, more akin to 2 Intel cores with hyperthreading.

My concern with the graphics side is that, at some point, the linux AMD GPU driver split support into "new AMD" and "old AMD." I'm sure it would run, but it's probably more optimal to get something even slightly newer, and GCN based, to run the new codepath.

I can't remember the details, but the split was almost certainly with VLIW4 since the next generation was a radical architecture shift for AMD.

VLIW4 was a good architecture though, certainly better than Intel at the time. It's just old.

Of course, all this is predicated on the listing I found being correct, which I now can't verify.