Sun Dec 05, 2021 3:43 pm
No, that's not wise in my opinion. Wait for a Mac mini with more GPU, which may come next year, or get one of the new laptops. These are impressive, but considerably more expensive than a mini.
If you are only editing and doing some mild grading, the current Mac mini M1 is acceptable, even for UHD delivery. But as soon as you need NR, Optical Flow or demanding filters it'll become very slow.
Now that the cat #19 is out of the bag, test it as much as you can and use the subforum.
Studio 18.6.6, MacOS 13.6.7, 2017 iMac, 32 GB, Radeon Pro 580
MacBook M1 Pro, 16 GPU cores, 32 GB RAM
Sonoma 14.5 with 19b3 (sandbox)
SE, UltraStudio Monitor G3