Gordon.

That i5 11600 …has better specs than the ‘t’ version on passmark.
At 18257//3303…but of course the tdp is more of course.

Frankly i’m fed up with laptops due to expandability constraints i run into vs desktops as i said before.
Been there , done that.

Just some more thoughts ….

What really surprises me is apples market approach.
Right now they have a superb opportunity to make serious inroads into the win pc market and possibly bring it to its knees with the super duper m series of cpu’s.
But from reading articles on the net apparently apple maybe are more interested in the phone market rather than computers. Also it seems they are protecting their higher priced computers above the base mini. Which has limited expandability etc.
Crikey ive seen el cheapo refurb win pc’s with way more ports as just one example.

Ive seen this strategy play out before in a ‘products role’ in a previous life in a tech company.
It didnt work, ..due to severe competition. Of course i told snr mgt we would have probs…
They didnt listen so i left ..and within a few years…you can guess the rest…
This was one reason (and others like never seeing my wife and family) i got out of working for a tech company.
Yes the money is groovy but if ones soul isnt happy …..etc

So many tech companies try various strategies…but the wider publict isnt ‘stupid’ .
In summary If i was in a product role at apple i would be pushing mgt hard to revamp the base mini with its m cpu. Allow up to 64 gigs, and up to 3 m2 ssd on board and add more ports to it. All for just under 1k…i’d prolly get fired…lol… i'd be all over such a mini.

but as you know , the one i’m ‘rooting for is the PI (with chips and maybe a knickerbocker glory desert for afters…lmao.)...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knickerbocker_glory

I reckon you prolly will ok with your stated i5 config with lots of ram etc.
But, as always 2023 will prolly bring more new pc’s we might have wished we’d waited for.
i reckon whatever year i get a new pc...next year i'll wish i had waited.


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