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I just sold an M1 Mini and grabbed a Beelink. It's wonderful being able to run whatever OS/distro I want on the Beelink, and it's plenty strong enough for whatever. I love this adoration for Apple, primarily for my investment accounts, but in a cloud world I have no idea why there's such a demand for the M4.

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I also have a Beelink, but it skeeves me out a bit. It's probably going to drive me more towards Apple M{X} for my next home server. Even though I know those parts are also made in China, I trust Apple's sourcing more. Bee-link's stuff is so affordable that it makes me wonder why that is.

The globe continuously inching towards war makes me quite paranoid, unfortunately.

Beelink's $299 base model of their compact desktops is enough for most regular home users. Not as powerful as the Mac Mini M4 but half the price and double the storage. Plus you can upgrade your own storage to 2TB for about $100 and it'll be faster than the Mac Mini's.

Exactly as described. I had an 8/256 Mini, and the Beelink solved more than a few problems.

Yeah. I scratch my head when there is a ton of new models and competition happening in the mini PC market that provides good value for end users, but nobody notices. When Apple releases a new mini PC, suddenly it's like a breakthrough or something. I even see people say "the entry 8 core Ryzen you can get on a desktop PC is 7700" when discussing this new Mac mini on tech forum, as if giant towers are the only kind of desktop PCs and 7840U/7840H(S) doesn't exist. (You would expect these people to know better)

I guess marketing matters.

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