Hi all. As I spoke in detail about my Mac Mini M1 and M2 performance (and versus the Wintel machines I have) in this thread , I'm wondering if anyone here is looking to buy the new Mac Mini M4 that came out today. It now comes with 16GB RAM instead of 8GB and remains at the same $599 price. You can buy it via the Education Discount for $499 and my hope is that it will be available for less than $499 around Black Friday.

If you are getting one, can you please post some specs regarding how the MCM project performs on it? And, if you have an M2 rig, how does the M4 compare to the M2 on WCG projects (I only run MCM).

Finally, you can buy refurbished M2s right now at Apple for $419 with full warranty, etc. I'm considering getting a few of those and hope I see 3rd party sites selling new M2s for under $419 to get ride of the stock.

Happy crunching!

p.s. I took July-now off from WCG because the electricity bill was high and the amount of heat my Wintels generate is too much for summer time (and it battles with the air conditioning which in turn pushes up the electric bill!). I'm gonna run only the Mac Minis for awhile and see what it does to the electric bill.