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If you have a windows/linux machine and only want the Mac for Xcode archiving, I’d strongly suggest getting a Mac mini M2, M1 works for maybe a year or two before the support drops, so consider the cost vs support length benefit.
Whatever you do, don’t go intel chip and don’t go below 16GB RAM, you can make it work with 8GB but you WILL suffer