Mac hardware options for indie devs, Spring 2020

"Mac mini is not an option, don’t even look at it."

Absent any discussion, I'd be inclined to ask why. The Mini certainly won't win any bang-for-the-buck awards, but compared to the $3500 27" iMac he eventually recommends, it gives up a discrete GPU, 2 CPU cores and virtually nothing else, while saving a good chunk of money, plus the ickiness of having to junk a perfectly good 5K display when the iMac eventually fails.