Why spend the extra money for a Nucleus rather than a less expensive desktop computer?

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neither of which is optimal for Roon.

Roon native version for Apple Silicon [done]

In this case, the votes on this topic don’t matter much because this work has been underway regardless of the votes. It’s critical we get there, but it’ll take time. The majority of the world has not become Apple Silicon ready for similar reasons to our own (framework dependencies). We all want it, but platform changes can years. It’s why Rosetta was so critical for Apple in this release. Patience is required, a lot of patience. Luckily, Apple has done a great job to make it easy to be patie…

Danny seems to think it’s pretty fantastic. The native version is also running on his Mac in beta.

Clearly the windows option makes more sense from a budget perspective. I was not aware that the pentium was better than the i3.

I’d still argue that the M1 mini makes more sense for a non technical user given Apple has physical stores for servicing and typically (but not all), non technical users gravitate towards Apple products.