Mini or not Mini ...
> But my 8-year-old laptop has a VMWare virtual machine on it with MacOS from my "proving" the same thing to somebody else.
BFD. I can run windows on VMWare partition on a 2010 series Mini. And that Mini cost me less than £500 new! How much did you pay for your super-duper laptop?
Horses for courses my dear. Just because a <insert your hw> doesn't do what you want doesn't mean it is bad for everyone.