The MacBook Air is a different beast entirely. You can essentially put it wherever your monitor cables can reach, but it’s still a desktop, meaning it’s designed to remain stationary. It can be an attractive centerpiece in your office or remain hidden beneath a monitor or under the desk. The Mac Mini is a thin slab with a metallic casing that’s incredibly understated in its design. Both devices are exceptionally well-built, with sturdy frames that don’t creak or bend.

The Mac Mini and MacBook Air build upon the design choices of their predecessors. Both have Apple’s new M1 chip, but which is more worth your time and money? Let’s see which comes out on top. In this comparison, we pit Apple’s fantastic Mac Mini against the MacBook Air. Don’t need a laptop? The Mac Mini is mightier.I am not sure if I should just keep waiting or get going with the M1. I have been looking for news about an M2 mac mini, hopefully with 32gb RAM but can't see anything coming yet, unless someone else knows something about that but just seems to be potential rumours that something could come out sometime in the next year. I understand that the M1 is the way to go though, having looked at the Mac Mini Intel for the larger RAM capacity but it just seems like the wrong decision to have something Intel based when Apple is heading in its own direction with its own chips now.

So I am looking at the Mac Mini M1, 16GB and either 1TB or 2TB memory so I can comfortably work with projects off the desktop and backed up elsewhere. I looked at the Mac Studio as it has the much higher RAM set up but can't justify the price for where I am in my career right now and could just be an overkill generally. I also used InDesign a lot and moving towards video editing. I am working as a photographer and predominantly use it for editing with Lightroom, Photoshop. I have been looking into getting a desktop set up having been using my MacBook as my main photo editing set up that it just can't keep up with anymore so would really appreciate a bit of advice before I make my final decision about what to get.

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