If you only use DR on the Mac might be a good reason.
I use libraries on an ssd to swap between machines
Think I might have to get one of these. My laptop is a couple year old Pavilion Aero Ryzen 7. Great for general browsing but not great when chugging through transitions on DR.
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I’d like to be in a position where I could give it serious thought. Need to see how a few things go over coming months.
Don’t necessarily go for the absolute base model … not that I’ve looked to see what else is available. But as I say above, for most it could be more than adequate.
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Well it’s been bought. 
That 10% off was too good seeing how rarely new Apple stuff is discounted. I also get a toy fund from work but have to pay the tax on the money I expense through. So it will roughly cost me just over £200.
I have the MX Keys and Master Mouse which are Mac compatible. The only thing I may need to upgrade is my 1080p monitor, although I might end up plugging this into my 4k OLED tv.
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That net price would see me breaking into my piggy bank!
A few months back I manged to pick up an excellent 2nd hand 32" LG 4k monitor for £180. Totally transformed things, and not just when using DR.
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Well it’s here and setup. I’ve installed DR and flung a couple of videos onto the internal drive to do some testing.
Dropped a couple of clips onto the timeline and stuck crossfade transitions in between. I thought I had done something wrong as I didn’t see any change, but it rendered it in realtime. I’m used to my laptop chugging its way through the transitions, this was so much better. I might actually get a video uploaded this weekend as I have quite a backlog. My library drive is 2.5" SATA so I’ll “need” to look into getting a NVMe drive and enclosure.
Checking the Activity Monitor shows it wasn’t stressed at all. The thing is silent and both the metal casing and plastic underbody are cool to the touch.
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… was probably the thing that stressed it most. 
Great to hear it’s performing so well for you. 
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Is this your first Mac ?
Yep. The only time I have used one previously was when my cousin wanted me to do tech support for an iBook about 20 years ago. I used to build PCs back then but had no clue about MacOS.
I’ll be giving my Mac Mini a good test this weekend, using FCP & Adobe Premiere, I’ve not processed a single video since the Humber Bridge meet, at the start of Oct.
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Newbie drone pilot but professional filmmaker and videographer here, thought I’d share my 2p’s worth of experience.
Can honestly say, since Apple has come out with its silicon (ie M- series) processors, it’s just a no brainer and now they’ve been out for a few years you can even grab a refurb’d or second hand M2 Mini for actual silly money and comfortably edit a feature on it. When the base M1 came out it blew a £10k HP Z series video-specific built machine out of the water for everything but export time, imagine now with M4.
Some people do have hang ups about Apple but if you’re going to work with video no other option makes sense at this point and in fairness their software offering is great and kept well updated.
Only extra investment to factor in is external SSDs to work off of (I use T7s) as the internal storage is pricey to spec up and not upgradeable after purchase - that’s one grudge I will definetly concede to the PC folk!
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Finally sat down yesterday to do some editing and managed to hit a weird bug in MacOS.
I was attempting to move files from my 5TB drive that has my drone footage on but kept getting a -50 error. It turns out that the drive is NTFS format, not exFAT, so although I could read the contents on the Mac I couldn’t copy the files to an SSD. Windows to the rescue and footage copied to SSD successfully.
Spent a few hours playing with my NC500 footage, mostly with masks and selective zooms. Window/mask tracking in clips is super speedy.
I still am only about halfway through the NC500 clips so edited together a few clips from Whitby Abbey I took on Saturday. You’ll see my newfound obsession with masks as the title pops from behind the church.
Do a search for Paragon ntfs, once installed it will give full access to your ntfs formatted drives. I’ve used this since I got my first Mac mini in 2012. It’s about£20 I think.
I’m surprised your windows woul recognise your ssd if formatted in apfs.
I have a Windows laptop so I wasn’t too put out. And the SSD is exFAT so I can move between the two of them. I just didn’t realise the 2.5” SATA was NTFS, I don’t ever remember formatting it that way.
I formatted all my “normal” drives in ntfs for use on a windows 7 computer to use Adobe creative suite 3. When I got my Mac mini in 2012 it wouldn’t let me write to the ntfs formatted discs and I wanted to swap files between photoshop on windows and lightroom which I was using on the Mac. Now will only really be using the Mac (I think) so when it arrives I’ll format my ssd in apfs to get the best performance out of my Nvme ssd.