Well, it has to be said though that the directly competing product would probably be the NUC 11 Pro - and at least here in Switzerland the Mac Mini (both 16 / 512) is slighty more expensive (150CHF/ 15%), however the M1 should smoke the 1185G7 that's in NUC 11 Pro.whyterabbyt wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:27 am In fact, despite the premium for the form factor, you can build an NUC system, ie something Mac-Mini sized as well, but with a hexcore i7, double the RAM and SSD(*), and have cash left over.
The Mac Mini with 16Gb and 500Gb SSD costs an extra $400 over the base spec, btw. more than 4 times what it costs to raise the PC from an 8Gb/250Gb spec.
If I was starting out and had to chose between those two, I'd probably go with the Mac indeed, going by assumed /estimated VFM.