Comment by fragmede

My issue with that analogy is that the CPU is more like the engine of a car, and people certainly do buy cars just to have a vehicle with a given engine.

When it was only the iPad with the M4, it was easier to be sympathetic to your cause, since the iPad is totally locked down and isn't a general purpose computing device since it can't run arbitrary code. But now the Mac Mini is available. It is a general purpose computing device, and you can install Firefox and Linux or whatever you want.

It doesn't meet the level of hardware vendor purity you're asking for, sure, but that's a more ideological now that there's a general purpose computer with the M4 for sale. (Just wish it were cheaper.)

And since it just went on sale today, I was highlighting that, since other readers might want to know that they can now get a computer with an M4.