I have two of them. Absolutely love them. My workflow isn't nearly as heavy as OPs (mostly DevOps stuff; some Kubernetes clusters here, some toy Go apps there)

I have two of them. Absolutely love them. My workflow isn't nearly as heavy as OPs (mostly DevOps stuff; some Kubernetes clusters here, some toy Go apps there), but it does a great job at these tasks while being super quiet and fast about it. Our other Mac Mini sits in our living room and is used for Zoom game nights. We play Jackbox on it. The Intel Mac mini that it replaced would really struggle with Jackbox despite having "fast" chips. On the M1 mini, the fans don't even turn on, even while sharing it over Zoom with other people's video on.