I got the Mac Mini with 16gb ram. It's pretty nice so far. The CPU is perfectly fine for basic browsing activities and handles 4k youtube playback without a hitch.

It's my 2nd time trying a mac and was quite disappointed by the lack of synchronisation with the iphone and so far i hate the mac way of window and focus management. the problem is, unlike other operating systems, it may not be customisable enough to change these so i'll have to decide whether i give it back. if it were customizable, i'd keep it. otherwise, i can build a pretty decent alternative machine with the same budget.

__________________
By replying to this post, you hereby grant Phil_MCR a royalty-free license to use, in any way, anything posted by you on the internet. If you do not accept, stop using EF and delete your account.

Had the mac mini since 2012, it´s more than adequate for my requirements, I gave it a SSD in 2018 which was like feeding it crack cocaine. Sadly it´s on it´s last OS as it can´t go higher than High Sierra without trickery.
There are loads of ways to customize the OS, what is it you are after?

change shortcut keys and window/focus behaviour.

Something like this?
https://www.howtogeek.com/209725/how...add-shortcuts/

Not sure what you mean by window focus, but there are oodles of ways to get the mac to do things you would not expect.
Have a look at these commands.
https://ss64.com/osx/

wish list would include:

- disabling spaces or not moving apps when going fullscreen into new/separate space
- customize shortcuts such as cmd-tab
- when minimizing a window, switch focus to previously open window
- reliable way to set-up keyboard shortcuts to launch apps (i tried using automation to create a 'service' and bind a hotkey to it alt-` but it doesn't fire reliably)
- maximize window without making the right hand window border 'grabbable' so that you can swing mouse to the right and click-drag to scroll without resizing window instead