What Software Will Run

Apple-Silicon M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max, M1 Ultra and now M2:

Apple says every well-behaved ordinary Application, originally written for Intel processors (that does not use Virtualization) will run on Apple-Silicon. It will use Rosetta emulation to translate the Intel binary to M1-binary.

Your Intel Apps will run and not crash while being executed on a completely different processor than the one the developer used. This is a truly remarkable feature.

It runs, and you can get your work done, which is what Apple promised and delivered.

Texas.Stargazer wrote:

The reason I'm asking is I was going to buy a Mac mini, but it seems like the Mac Studio is a better deal.

Would there be any drawback from buying the Mac Studio?

What are your criteria for "better deal"? The Studio is over 3X the price of the Mac mini. To me, that would be a drawback if I didn't need the power.

Sorry, didn't realize you were looking at used equipment.

Ah, education pricing.