I voted for AMD, mostly because it was my surprise that a ~400US it does so much. Was expected some issues with a smaller brand nuc from HK. Minisforum is the brand, would recommend. Maybe the M1 seems to do much better for specific tasks like querying a local LLM. But I have rarely used that.

I'd say for SB computer, rasPi/ARM chips are not bad. Maybe not as cheap as they used to be, and now that there are so many more powerful competitors at the same price. But I just admire the form factor. They still make decent mini servers, lite desktops.