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Fairly reasonable specs, but they are phantasizing of ridiculously high prices.

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FYI: 849 EUR (~$910 USD) incl 19% tax for the basic configuration with AMD Ryzen 5 7535U, 8GB RAM, and 500GB SSD storage.

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

And it very comfortably beats the 7535U while consuming less energy & staying cooler.

Definitely a deal breaker [M2 Mac mini] 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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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.

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You could get an Odroid H3+ for a lot cheaper.

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And the specs would be ridiculously different.

I’d say you need to buy at least 4 of the Odroids and run them in parallel to compete with the performance of that ryzen.

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