Yes. I'd like to see a decent-ish Ryzen APUs such as the 3400G up against one of these as well.
I did notice that the cinebench for the M1 is only about 10% higher than my Ryzen laptop (T495s) which is laughable as it's a 3500U and the whole thing cost me £470 new!
Yeah, forgot about that. Everything else being equal (ostensibly), the M1 Mac Mini is $200 cheaper than the crappy Intel i5 Mac Mini, more if you upgrade the Intel CPU.
As an owner of a decked out 2019 Mac Mini, in hindsight I made a shitty purchase decision.
No matter what the purchase, I always force myself to stop comparing for a bit of time after the purchase. By the time I pull the trigger, I have shopped and compared as best I can. Inevitably, as soon as I complete the sale, one of the places I was looking will have lowered the price or release the next-gen.
I bought what I thought was a 2020 Mac Mini in April direct from Apple. The only significant difference on paper was that the base model came with 128GB for the 2018, 256GB for the 2020.
As it turns out, that's true: About This Mac says "Mac mini (2018)" even for the 2020.
I replaced the 8GB base RAM with 32GB of aftermarket and have been thrilled with it. But then I was coming from a 2018 MBP 4-Thunderbolt with only 8GB and the fan noise with it drove me nuts.
I got the i3 because I thought the CPU wasn't the weak point, the RAM was. And so far, for me, that's held up.
I actually just bought an Intel Mac Mini to run MacOS VMs with using ESXi. I expect it will be quite a while before stable Mac VM support is available for Apple Silicon Macs.
Yeah you did. Why would you buy something you don't need? It doesn't even matter if the Mac Mini with Apple Silicon existed or if from now on the only computer Apple sold is a Mac Mini.
Okay lets be serious. You bought the x86 Mac Mini because you wanted a x86 Mac Mini, not because you wanted to make perfect purchasing decisions with infinite foresight. A lot of software is broken on the M1 Mac Mini so you made the right decision at that time. It's entirely possible that you would regret buying the M1 Mac Mini.
There’s this word that we use in poker: “resulting.” It’s a really important word. You can think about it as creating too tight a relationship between the quality of the outcome and the quality of the decision. You can’t use outcome quality as a perfect signal of decision quality, not with a small sample size anyway. I mean, certainly, if someone has gotten in 15 car accidents in the last year, I can certainly work backward from the outcome quality to their decision quality. But one accident doesn’t tell me much.
