I've always been curious about the Mac Studio and I'd initially had that on my list of must-have systems until the new Mac Mini M4s came out.
I now have tentative plans to buy the Mac Mini M4. I want to use that system to heavy-lift creation of my videos, as well as to maybe utilize it for housing of my Docker containers.
I love my current M1 Mini but it is a base model and I'm somewhat limited in the above-mentioned use cases. While I can crunch video footage, I usually have to kill all other resource-intensive running processes when doing that. I've not even tried to use Docker containers on that system, since running multiple containers usually requires a somewhat robust system (plus there's some system overhead since Docker can't natively run on Mac systems).
The real difference between the Studio and Mini would be ports and connectivity to peripherals, which would be extremely beneficial.
As well, you can better spec out a Studio, as the platform is designed to be more open-ended as it relates to performance. UPDATE: Nope!! I was wrong - I can spec out more RAM and undercut the price (drastically) of a somewhat similarly spec'd Studio.
So, my dilemma is, which one would be better for me, a high spec (lots of memory) Mini or a decently spec'd Studio?
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