I have owned many Macs. I have two of these. One is used as a Plex/Homebridge server, the other is attached to a monitor on my desk and is great for light email, internet, zoom usage. I had a mac mini from 2013 and it was slow and painful to use. This thing zips right along, as long as you aren't trying to play games, do video editing or anything else that needs serious computing power. Great family computer. It also works really well as a plex server. Love it.