I thought the question was low-end MacBook + mini vs high-end MacBook. The low-end one has all those nice things. I wouldn't sacrifice that. If it has to be MacBook + super old used mini as home server, so be it.
Except for LLM inference speed, macs suck as a server and are pretty expensive, why wouldn't you get a Linux box?
Except for LLM inference speed, macs suck as a server and are pretty expensive, why wouldn't you get a Linux box?