I just bought a mac mini pro 16gb 1tb having done a lot of checking 32gb was not worth it for my needs 16Gb is fine but the faster SSD speeds were more useful. It makes my old 27" iMac that was BTO and maxed out in 2017 feel slow, and since that had PSU issues it was time to move on. If I had gone for 32GB ram that would have pushed to about the same prices as a mac Studio base config, and I don't need that much horsepower, also updating to 1tb on the studio would have taken it out of well out of what I had decided to spend.
I'm more than happy with the mini. I wont get caught up in updating computers almost yearly because M3/M4 etc that really is pointless. It reminds me of the old days when I built windows PC's and people wanted the next CPU and faster ram etc yearly. These days Apple silicon macs are crazy fast and they should last much longer hopefully. I see lots of people hoping for M3 versions of the M2 version they have and I'm like "why?" its a fools errand to try to stay ahead of the tech curve, as long as it does what you want that's fine.
I think we get way caught up on specs, then notice we can't tell the difference when a new machine arrives, because the last Mac, iPhone or iPad was so fast already. I stopped updating iPhones yearly and there is no way no way I'm going to start updating my computers every time a new CPU comes out. Been there done that and it hurt my wallet and I could not tell the difference between a iPhone 13 Pro and a iPhone 14 Pro speed wise. I'll use the same stratagey to my Macs as well. Update when I really need to, not when I just want to because of the hype.
I'm more than happy with the mini. I wont get caught up in updating computers almost yearly because M3/M4 etc that really is pointless. It reminds me of the old days when I built windows PC's and people wanted the next CPU and faster ram etc yearly. These days Apple silicon macs are crazy fast and they should last much longer hopefully. I see lots of people hoping for M3 versions of the M2 version they have and I'm like "why?" its a fools errand to try to stay ahead of the tech curve, as long as it does what you want that's fine.
I think we get way caught up on specs, then notice we can't tell the difference when a new machine arrives, because the last Mac, iPhone or iPad was so fast already. I stopped updating iPhones yearly and there is no way no way I'm going to start updating my computers every time a new CPU comes out. Been there done that and it hurt my wallet and I could not tell the difference between a iPhone 13 Pro and a iPhone 14 Pro speed wise. I'll use the same stratagey to my Macs as well. Update when I really need to, not when I just want to because of the hype.
