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For me the ARM64 Linux Mac Mini equivalent is... a Mac Mini. Got my homelab server running as a vm in the cupboard, hooked to a couple of NVMes in a tiny Thunderbolt enclosure, works great.

Not the same form factor but here you go: https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-astra-a1.1-n1/configure

Thank you :-)

The Snapdragon X Elite has tons of laptop models and a few mini PCs like:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-IdeaCentre-Mini-x-debut...

The Elite X2 is near release and supposedly on par with these M5 numbers:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M5-9-Cores-Processor-Ben...

> The Elite X2 is near release and supposedly on par with these M5 numbers:

It also has hardware AV1 encoding support, so depending on your workload, it can be significantly faster.

Thank you :-)

You're not the only one. I think there's 12.

There are dozens of us!

There are several dozens of us!

:-)

Way, way too much of the value of Linux for me comes from Wine/Proton for me to ever want a Linux arm64 desktop.

A server? Sure, I guess.