Running off the internal drive might be a PC thing, but over in Mac-land, with Thunderbolt 4 (or TB5 on the Mini Pro!) putting your Home folder on an external drive is easy and seems to run blazingly fast. There are several YouTube videos explaining how you can do this and benchmarking the results.

There’s simply no comparing these new, MUCH faster modern computers to their older siblings. Things that in the past would not have been feasible are now performed easily and a lot of older ‘wisdom’ no longer applies. I have not yet seen ONE YouTube review and benchmark that consider the smallish base internal HD any kind of problem whatsoever. And these are guys that do heavy duty video, graphics and coding work.

I’m inclined to trust them…