Mac Mini Recommendations
Discussions revolve around recommending the Mac Mini (often used or new models) as a cost-effective, high-performance alternative to more expensive Apple products like MacBook Pro, Mac Studio, or Mac Pro, or competing mini-PCs, with debates on price, value, and suitability for various tasks.
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mac mini is probably enough these days
Why wouldn’t you just get a Mac mini and save $1000s?
well soon you can get a mac mini. It's doubtful you could get a better bang for your buck elsewhere.
If performance isn't an issue, why not get a Mac mini?
Sounds like a macmini is a terrible choice for that job. Is there a hard osx requirement? It's not like they are really cheap.
It's cute but once you outfit the thing you might as well buy a Mac Mini.. you'll get a better CPU.
This looks pretty cool, although I think you could definitely get a better deal with a mac mini. Although it's apple and we know how they are.
Mac Mini if desktop is good enough, it is cheaper. The M1 chip is a really good deal.
I'd say getting a macbook or a macbook air would be worth it, but rather than spending that much on a mac mini I'd probably get one of those new ryzen mini-PCs like from Beelink or Minisforum. You could get something with a 7735HS 8-core chip, terabytes of diskspace and a shitload of LPDDR5 RAM for 500€ and it's as small as the mac mini.
They should have said: "Just get a used Mac Mini". You can literally get them from macsales.com for less than $100. The intel machines have not gotten much faster, but their prices have dropped dramatically.