Tomorrow's technology in yesterday's packaging. M1 is a first generation chip, Intel is on an eleventh iteration. Does anyone know yet what the machine learning part will lead to? What are those unlabeled blocks in the block diagram?
The most I paid for a computer was North of $5000 in the mid-1990s. The new Mini is $700-900.
The thing I like about the Raspberry Pi is you have to image the operating system yourself, so you don't have to worry about who might have opened the box before it got to you.