Eh, the $300 Mac Mini Neo already exists since a decade. It was called a NUC before Intel stopped producing them. Now its Mini-PCs made predominantly by chinese companies like Minisforum and the like. I built my father a NUC barebone for under 300€ like 8 years ago. It has a shitty celeron with 4 cores which boosts to like 2ghz, 8gb of ram and a 256gb sata ssd. When i visit him and do a bit of support on the system i'm surprised again and again how snappy this old ass shitbox feels.