I mean, that price tag is being swung in a kinda silly way. The Mini with 16GB of ram is like $899. At that price the CPU has 8 Cores but 50% greater single co

I mean, that price tag is being swung in a kinda silly way. The Mini with 16GB of ram is like $899. At that price the CPU has 8 Cores but 50% greater single core performance than basically anything in the price range. In lightly threaded or thread-racey tasks the M1 will outperform any chip on the market for most people working on their machine. In my case, we build, run, and run tests on a very large typescript app in half the time of any single Intel chip we have ever tested, including desktop i9. I'm not defending the pricing of their ram or storage upgrades, those are nuts. But the pricing you are comparing with here is for machines that include a LOT of gravy in the build sheet intended to draw your point such as a 4.5K Display or TBs of PCIe SSD. Did I mention that the case I was mentioning was in the very base Macbook Air with 8Gb ram cross-compared with an i9 64Gb machine? You are kinda making a blanket statement that is a little unfaithful to the intent of any of these machines. None of these machines are intended as 'pro' machines, even the 'Macbook Pro' is just the low end model and it is three times as powerful as the outgoing model. Sure you can spec one to the moon to make a price point, but that's the story of anything.