We've always been a Mac family, but we upgrade more slowly than we would like because of the cost compared to other brands.  My wife held on to her iMac for 8+ years... it was still working, we just kept finding it slower and slower.The M1 MacMini upgrade was outstanding!  She is seeing 3X performance on most Apps (from her old iMac) and I am seeing 2x performance over my i7 based Mac.For the money, this could be overall price/performance leader in the Mac line, if not across the PC industry in my opinion.  Good investment!Yes, some of the software is buggy. Podcasts and syncing don't always work correctly.  This should improve over time. Yes, Big Sur was a significant change from the Catalina OS she was running before, and sometimes change is hard. Yes, we could have waited a year and got the M2 chip or the M1X chip and gotten even better performance, but you can't wait forever, right?Totally worth it!