Need help on deciding what Mac to downgrade to (Downgrading from M2 Pro Mac Mini)

[HDFan]

I don't know the difference between 10GB of internet and not - so what is the actual functional difference?

1. If you don't have fast internet or internal network connections > 1 Mbs then it won't be of much use right now. Might be useful in the future.

2. With a fast internet downloads take just seconds if the website supports it. Most don't.

the only thing it's bad at is supporting the type of user who keeps dozens or hundreds of tabs open, especially if you want to use Chrome as your primary browser.

It's not the number of tabs that causes problems, it is the amount of memory used by each tab. You could have 100 37 MB tabs open with no problems. Not so many 2 GB tabs [lowest highest memory useage of my ~35 Safari tabs].

 

[leifp]

This site can benchmark a potential sale price: https://www.mac2sell.net/

There are also sites that buy your device direct although I’ve never used them so cannot comment.

Likely unappealing, but I’ll mention it: see what Apple will offer in trade. This requires buying something new as I understand it. Perhaps see about just a base M2 Mac mini? They’re $599 and you get the approximate macOS upgrade lifetime of your M2Pro model while having money left to purchase other tech, if that’s of interest.