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I’ve heard of these things called slide rules…
I used my 2011 iMac for 10 years. I got the M2 Mac mini when it came out, thinking this was going to be another tank of a computer for the next decade. Less than 2 years later I felt my needs had outpaced the M2. I gave it to my mom (I amazingly convinced her to try it, and then, mostly, ditch windows) and got the M4 Pro Mini.
Sigh…
I miss Lion.
I thought the same thing when I got my 2018 Mac mini. 6 cores ought to be plenty for browsing the internet… oh how I was wrong.
Now I got a Mac Studio and this MFer better last me a while.
I kept eyeing older model and refurbished studios until the M4 mini showed up. And despite apples usurious upgrade costs, I fell the M4 Pro mini is one of (3?) best bang for the buck values in the lineup.
The base config minis have always been a really good value. I just don’t want to change machines often.
Also I wanted more than 32 gigs of ram and with 10gig Ethernet it just kinda made sense to jump to the studio at that point.
But it’s super special sayan integrated magic RAM!