So I bought a refurb Mac Mini online for $169. It was able to run Monteray but was sooo sluggish. I wanted to try an expiriment so I bought a $52 512GB SSD and basically transferred the OS to that drive and made the 1TB Sata internal drive my Time Machine. It made such a huge difference even I was suprised. The Mac Mini has an i5 2.6Ghz Dual-core processor with 8G of RAM. I would have upgraded that but this particular model does not allow it. But I have been putting it through some tests and its great. I have have not pressed it to its limits on editing or gaming but a simple SSD externally (just connected to USB A) has made it the cheapest MAC I’ve ever owned!