[vlad_omniforge]

I think the main reason people are buying mac minis is because of how much user friendly it is.

You can expect a software engineer or a devops guy to run stuff in a VPS but a slightly less technical person won't ever go there. In contrast, people are familiar with macOS and that's way less scary to setup.

The added benefit of the mac mini is that it can also double down as a second device one could use for something else too

[d3Xt3r]

One big draw for a lot of folks wanting to run these models is that the Mac Minis (well, the M3 Ultra) comes with up to 256GB RAM - and I'm not aware of any other mini PC that supports that much RAM - the highest I've come across is 128GB.

[namegulf]

Yep, it's a well designed tiny, affordable and powerful mac that appeals to even non-technical folks