"This article is aimed at small companies and serious indie developers who do this for living; not for home and hobby use."
"Mac mini is not an option, don’t even look at it."
Absent any discussion, I'd be inclined to ask why. The Mini certainly won't win any bang-for-the-buck awards, but compared to the $3500 27" iMac he eventually recommends, it gives up a discrete GPU, 2 CPU cores and virtually nothing else, while saving a good chunk of money, plus the ickiness of having to junk a perfectly good 5K display when the iMac eventually fails.
I just picked up a Mac Mini for recompiling a handful of apps. If I were developing daily on it, a better specced machine might be worth it, but 2 to 4 year old Mac Minis are cheap, have the latest MacOS and fulfill my needs.
"Mac mini is not an option, don’t even look at it."
Absent any discussion, I'd be inclined to ask why. The Mini certainly won't win any bang-for-the-buck awards, but compared to the $3500 27" iMac he eventually recommends, it gives up a discrete GPU, 2 CPU cores and virtually nothing else, while saving a good chunk of money, plus the ickiness of having to junk a perfectly good 5K display when the iMac eventually fails.