I have an m4 pro Mac mini. Fantastic device. Went back into the Apple Store yesterday when I was in the mall and saw the iMac m4 again. Really a beautiful device, they did a nice job with it. When I got my Mac mini I was excited to put my own monitor on it but I’m still using a crappy 27” 1440p monitor, never committed to an upgrade and I think it’s a bit late to jump at the old Apple studio display 27” 5K. So it’s a bit ironic I’m still in an overall setup that I would consider “worse” than the iMac 24.5”. More on reddit.com

Best Buy often runs sales and, if you're lucky, the model you want will be on sale. Costco also offers some deals on Apple products. I believe Costco has a longer return policy, but not 100% sure on that. Buy from whichever place is cheaper and more convenient. Edit: I forgot to add, if you want to possibly save some money or get more for the same amount, look into buying a refurb directly from Apple (and ONLY from Apple). 99% of the time you can't tell it's not brand new except for the plain white box it comes in. Carries the exact same warranty as new. https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished More on reddit.com

Do you take trade ins? I have an imac and would like to upgrade to a new one. – Learn about Apple - 27" iMac® - Intel Core i5 (3.4GHz) - 8GB Memory - 1TB Fusion Drive - Silver with 3 Answers – Best Buy More on bestbuy.com

Any of the current MacBooks models will run the latest release of Logic just fine, all features should be there regardless of the Mac it runs on. The only difference would be performance, especially when your projects get larger with more CPU hungry plugins and RAM hogging sampler VSTs, that’s where you will really start to see lower-end models suffer from system overload warnings. But given how well the M1 seems to perform, the gap between MacBook Air and the pro lineup has really closed so you might be just fine getting a base model MacBook Air. However, if you really want to be safe in case your skills and production scale outgrows the machine’s capability (and maybe want to get into some video editing at some point), then I’d say the 14” M1 Pro would offer you better value.

Side note: rumors about M2 MacBooks are on the rise so if I were you I’d probably wait it out for a bit and see!

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