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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Less desk clutter. A port for everything, everything in it’s port.
- 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.
- 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.
SWDuncan 