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0 pointsYetAnotherNick5y ago0 comments

Are you sure about that? Mac mini price is $700. Let's take ryzen 5600x for comparison which is worse on almost each metric than m1:

  Processor: $300
  Motherboard: $200
  good 256 gb SSD: $100(doesn't seem to come close to apple's)
  8 GB RAM: $40
  Case/cooling: $100

Even in the configuration which is worse in each of the spec, you are hitting more than apple including apple tax.

But yeah, I agree if you want an upgrade of RAM and SSD, it is much expensive than the part.

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>Let's take ryzen 5600x for comparison which is worse on almost each metric than m1

On what metric? Single-thread performance seems to be comparable and in multi-threaded workloads Ryzen seems to be up to 50% faster.

>Motherboard: $200

Huh? AM4 motherboards seems to be available for around $70

>Case/cooling: $100

Processor includes box cooler, so you are now counting it twice.