Also
Seagate's fraudulent HDD scandal expands: IronWolf Pro hard drives reportedly also affected
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/seagates-fraudulent-hdd-scandal-expands-ironwolf-pro-hard-drives-also-affected
I dont know about your usage but I have 32GB ram and 4 cores of xeon gold and use 50 tabs of chrome opened along with intellij and vscode open with copilot plugins, sonar lint etc and works just fine.
Your earlier statement was incorrect. Its not just browsing internet as you said in earlier post :) the things you have mentioned are proper productivity apps. Be it web apps. My statement is still correct that you don’t need mac if all you wanna do is browse internet.
If all you do is browse internet then you don’t need mac. The fact that you can get 2 units of base m4 mini for same price to max out upgrades for 1 is crazy. Ram and storage are so cheap. Definitely would suggest to get aftermarket 1tb replacement.