Apple users: do you desktop or laptop?

ahsat · 2024-11-01T07:03:32Z

Help my dilemma! Made the move over to Apple 12 months ago with an 13” M2 MacBook Air and I’m totally sold. It’s so much better than my work PCs. Problem is I now exclusively work on my laptop and don’t use my desk set up at home - I’m getting a sore shoulder and have a history of bad backs, so know this is stupid. So I ordered a decent spec’d M4 iMac for working from home (I have a decent home office with sit-stand desk). I travel quite a bit so the MacBook is still required. But let’s be honest an iMac is a lot of money - that I could spend on refurbishing our garden. I had a play with a M3 iMac in the store yesterday and of course it was lovely. In the aim of balance, I went home and plugged my MacBook into my standard spec (non 4K) 27” screen with my Anker USB-C hub and it didn’t play nicely - had to keep MacBook open to run second screen (I don’t want to keep it permanently on charge as that seems to kill my Dell laptops), changing settings was a bit of faff and then it kept blacking out for a second (HDMI cable and hub has been fine when I’ve given presentations at work). Plus of course not being as good resolution as the MacBook screen it felt a bit ‘sad’. What are your home set ups for your Macs? I’m a University Professor and can spend far too much time at a computer - this isn’t occasional use. I do have to be on campus about 3 days a week in term time but use my work PC (through gritted teeth). I can still cancel the iMac! I guess that’s the question… #firstworldproblems

shinton

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My Philips 40" curved 4k monitor which I bought in February 2019 is still going strong and is hooked up to my late 2018 mac-mini as well as my MBP when I was working and my X-Box now I'm not :-). I bought Divvy which makes the window arrangement a lot easier and my default setup was 4 windows of equal size which covered 95% of my needs for work. What does ultra wide give you that my setup doesn't?

I'm seriously tempted by the new mac mini, especially with a £95 trade-in I can get get for my old one.

Posted : 11/11/2024 12:16 pm

CountZero

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iPad Pro. It’s about six years old, now, so a new 11” Pro is probably going to be a Xmas present to myself, I think. The bigger screen will allow me to do better retouching with the new AI CleanUp tool, along with a pencil - my iPhone screen is a bit fiddly with a fingertip.

I have a 2010 Mac Mini, but it’s seldom used these days.

Posted : 12/11/2024 3:27 am

DrJ

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Probably this has been said already - if I were in your shoes today I'd be looking carefully at the new Mac Mini

Posted : 12/11/2024 9:37 am

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