My advise was to get 16gb of ram for the mac mini.

Then I was responding to this statement which was not true.." Not trying to get anyone in an uproar but "Once you go Mac you never look back" Enjoy your purchase."

Of course this person was stirring the pot.

Then YOU wanted me to PROVE a windows laptop would match a mac which the AMD which has the equivalent to 16 cores does. "Show me a $1400 Windows laptop that weighs under three pounds and can outrun a $1400 Mac laptop — completely silently — for ten hours, on battery alone. Oh wait, there isn't one! "

You stirred the pot and I responded with a computer that could compete and was 3 lbs but was not as power efficient or quiet. so what.

Then people stirred the pot bringing cars and stuff into it.

Then " someone has to stir the pot in favor of Windows. It’s pointless." you insinuate that I am stirring the pot. Who is really stirring the pot?

After everyone else stirred the pot and talk about how they developed applications on the mac and how much better it is I offer a option which will do everything the mac mini will do, and even more for less and have a monitor and is portable all in one solution that is faster than the Mac M1 and has a much better dedicated video card with 24gb of ram and 1tb nvme drive. It is just an option and a darn good one and I think is a better performer. But I agree get what you want

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08DFZHRPX?th=1

2020 ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 14" VR Ready FHD Gaming Laptop,8 cores AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS(Upto 4.2 GHzBeat i7-10750H),Backlight,HDMI,USB C,NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650,Gray,Win 10 (24GB RAM|1TB PCIe SSD)

$987

Lets compare this with the mac mini.

Apple M1 Chip with 8-Core CPU and 8-Core GPU
512GB Storage
Apple M1 chip with 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, and 16-core Neural Engine
8GB unified memory
512GB SSD storage¹
Gigabit Ethernet

$899.00

For 100 buck more you get 24gb ram 1tb storage, but wait the PC has an extra nvme drive slot, you can add a 1tb Samsung drive for 100 bucks lesser brands for less, or even a 4tb nvme drive. You could go up to 32gb of ram but that is not necessary. From what I can see the apple site won't even allow you to upgrade the mac mini to 16gb ram which is totally necessary.

My new recommendation, run away from the mac mini... as fast as you can. Run to the PC. You will be happier in the long run (and it will play top tier games LOL).

Or revert to my previous recommendation. If you buy a mac, get 16gb ram minimum and you will be happy with this option if you are going to use it for video editing or heavy lifting..

There are TONS of great YouTube reviews of the M1 Mac mini. Start with MaxTech, https://www.youtube.com/c/MaxTechOfficial/search?query=mac%20mini

Luke Miani, Everyday Dad, Mark Ellis Reviews, are but a few of the trustable review sites. MANY others will pop up if you watch the one I linked.

My advice?

> Buy from Apple Refurbished. Same machine, same warranty as new, for about 15% less.

> Get 16GB Unified Memory and 1TB internal storage. The long-term performance will be far more satisfying than base models.

> Get all 8 graphics cores if you can find a refurb with that configuration.

> Check out OWC at https://eshop.macsales.com for peripherals like drives, docks, cables, and hubs. Also consider this:

https://www.charjenpro.com/products/ultimatedock — I use one and love it. It just works.

I have an M1 MacBook Air with 16GB and 1TB and all 8 graphics cores. It's great. After 13 months, I couldn't be happier.

The M1 Mini, M1 Air, M1 13" Pro, and 24" iMac are pretty similar in performance. Pick your form factor and boogie on...

M2 models will probably be here "soon," or so everyone says... But if you need one now, M1 machines are still awesome.