[trcf23]

The question is: what type of mac mini. If you go for something with 64G + +16 cores, it's probably more than most laptop so you can run much bigger models without impacting your job laptop.

[bigyabai]

64GB Mac Mini is easily in the $2000 territory. At that point you might as well just buy a DGX Spark and get proper CUDA/Linux support.