• 3laws@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    $799.00 USD gets you the Mac mini with the same (but maybe faster) RAM and (slightly faster) SSD.

    And it beats very comfortably the 7535U while consuming less energy and being cooler.

    Definitely a deal breaker for Windows x86 dependant workflows; not so much for Linux users tho.

    I think AMD is the only one with a real chance at matching and maybe beating Apple in the mini PC space, but pricing and architectural differences still make it really challenging.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah. I saw the Mac mini in a store not long ago. I don’t know about the state of Linux support for the M2 platform. I somewhat dislike Apple for nowadays soldering everything and making things so they can’t be updated or repaired. And they take a crazy amount of extra money to put in a proper amount of RAM and storage. Like Apple’s price explodes from 700€ to ~2000€ once I put in 24GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD.