Comment by ActorNightly

>You clearly do not seem to understand how convenient the MacMini actually IS - the form factor, how quiet it is, how durable it is, how well it integrates with other Macs, how well it works as a bridge to a personal agent like Hermes (integration with iMessage, Calendar, Reminders, iCloud, etc).

If you are that locked in to Apple, its pretty easy to buy a used Mac Mini older gen for all the non AI stuff.

But this is a discussion about inference. Buying a Mac anything for any sort of local inference is a COLOSSAL waste of money.