The only problem with that is you might lose some sound quality since Apple incorporates the sound and camera into the monitor. $1,600 is ridiculous for a 27" monitor you can get for 1/3 of that from someone else. What i do like is the Mac Mini is relatively cheap so once you have the monitor...
It could just be that the apps I run don't show the speed increase. I use my Mac for basic stuff like managing my finances and surfing the web. For that it doesn't seem faster. If I was playing games that use a lot of graphics that might be different.
I upgraded to the new M3 iMac from a 2014 27" Intel iMac because Apple is dropping support for the operating system. Until they came out with the M3 I was going to go the Mac Mini route myself but that $1,600 27" monitor is really expensive. There was really nothing wrong with my old iMac -...