You want a dedicated machine for this. Don’t run a node on your daily machine, run it elsewhere. Decently spec’d out mini pc is totally fine for the foreseeable future.
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It isn’t my daily, but I do use it. And unfortunately Core wants 11.0 or higher and this machine runs Catalina.
2012 model iirc?
i run mine on my old lenovo ideapad 3... any laptop with the ability to accept some kind of 500Mb/s speed SSD or better is suitable, that's a pretty low bar, you can probably pick up this type of laptop for under $150 in most places nowadays second hand