I purchased the base model Mini M1 a few weeks ago. I'm using it for development of my macOS/iOS app. So far I am enjoying it. My other machine is a 13" MacBoo

I purchased the base model Mini M1 a few weeks ago. I'm using it for development of my macOS/iOS app. So far I am enjoying it. My other machine is a 13" MacBook Pro from earlier this year (intel, the cheapest model) and the Mini is definitely snappier, even if it only has 8GB RAM. The MBP would often stutter audio playback when I was doing anything CPU-intensive and listening to music at the same time. This would often require me to restart the coreaudiod process to get audio playing nicely again. (It's a really horrible OS bug.) But the M1 just chugs along. Xcode builds are much, much faster on this as well, making the write code/test and debug it feedback cycle tighter. The only drawbacks I've seen so far are that homebrew isn't fully supported yet and Firefox will just get stuck if you leave it for a few hours, requiring you to restart it. Other than that, for my workflow, it's been working great.