That's not a nitpick, it's a legitimate issue with the chip. 8 cores is not consistent with the state of the art, it's consistent with low tier consumer CPUs.

That's not a nitpick, it's a legitimate issue with the chip. 8 cores is not consistent with the state of the art, it's consistent with low tier consumer CPUs. The other major issue is lack of memory (just by way of example, I allocate 16GB of memory on my local machine for VMs regularly - I can't buy an M1 Mac to do my work right now). And a Mac Mini only costs $600 if you're ok with 256GB of disk space (not enough) and 8 GB of memory (not enough) and no EGPU support yet (not sufficient). It's a cool toy right now.