HARDWARE / LAPTOP / COMPUTER for use in Unity development? Ask here! (and only here)

[Ryiah]

I checked the companies I typically check for sales (Amazon, BestBuy, NewEgg, Dell, HP) and nothing stood out on the PC side of things. On the Apple side of things Costco continues to sell the base model of the new M1 Mac Mini for $600 which is $100 less than purchasing it through Apple.

https://www.costco.com/mac-mini-–-apple-m1-chip-8-core-cpu,-8-core-gpu-–-8gb-memory-–-256gb-ssd-––silver.product.100694159.html

Just be aware you will have to use newer releases of Unity thanks to incompatibilities between the older releases and newer releases of macOS.

Unity on Apple silicon and Big Sur: Known issues and workarounds

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