Moved from Macbook to Mini

Yesterday I traded my MacBook pro in to buy a mac mini. I did this for a mix of logical and irrational reasons, in no particular order:

  1. Having anything with a battery plugged in all the time bothers me on a very subconcious level. I know that modern charging systems will protect the battery, but it’s more the idea that I’m keeping something that should be free. Unfortunately, if I’m away, I prefer the iPad.
  2. I have more stuff than could fit on the the MBPs ssd. This created quite a lot of distraction for me, trying to decide how best to choose what should go on the internal SSD vs elsewhere.
  3. Trade in value was still pretty good. Yes, much less than I could have gotten from a private sale I wouldn’t have gotten around to making happen.
  4. No flaky dock. No one makes a reliable dock, although I will say that my Anker dock was more reliable than the no-name one I started with.
  5. Less desk clutter. A port for everything, everything in it’s port.
  6. I needed a home base. A desktop computer is a home base. A laptop sort of feels like one when it’s at home, but really it doesn’t.
  7. All of the things I need a laptop to do I find I need a large screen to do. Every time I brought the laptop with me to edit some audio or whatever, I would start and then get frustrated because of the small screen.

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