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Alright, I've decided

I want to replace the Pi on my desk with the new Mac Mini 

I love having a bunch of small apps or services being run from my desk and it just feels like the next level of power. 

For $600, is there something else you might recommend that has similar specs? Particularly the silicon and how it affects performance

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I've got an Asus mini pc that I run most of my stuff off proxied through a cheap VPS, in Australian bucks I think it was <900 (so whatever that is in freedom dollars) back when I bought it. BYO RAM and SSD options are kind of nice, with m.2 and 2.5" storage. Probably in terms of apple arm performance it wouldn't be as good but I like the ability to throw some more storage on it and it costs next to nothing to run.

Looks like the latest ones barebones would be 3-500 usd with 2x m.2 ssd slots. Insane how cheap storage has become for those ssds these days