Anyone have a Mac Mini AND a MBP?

[GooseInTheCaboose]

How do you justify having the Mac Mini when the MBP can do everything the Mini can do?

Curious as the new minis are tempting lol

 

[Fishrrman]

Yes.

I have a 2018 Mini and a 2021 MacBook Pro 14" (m1pro).

There's nothing that beats having a decent desktop for "desktop things", AND a good laptop for "laptop things"...

 

[GooseInTheCaboose]

Yes.

I have a 2018 Mini and a 2021 MacBook Pro 14" (m1pro).

There's nothing that beats having a decent desktop for "desktop things", AND a good laptop for "laptop things"...

Do you ever wish you had an Air?

What stuff do you do on desktop vs laptop?

 

[PotentPeas]

Mac Mini in my basement, basically it just has a high-capacity USB hard drive attached to it and it serves as a backup target for my MacBook Pro...

 

[DaveEcc]

I will in a week. Upgrading a long out of support iMac for a new mini + nice monitor. Will be used for general use, coding, and photo editing. Will have a set of external drives on it (I'm eyeing a TERRAMASTER D8 Hybrid... allows 4x24TB SATA drives, and 4x 8TB NVME drives. You can get this AND a couple drives for less than a 2TB expansion from Apple, and you can bring it with you next time you update). Also I'll likely share the monitor w/ my work Dell box.

Yes, I could just keep plugging my laptop into the display and storage box when I need them. No, I don't want to.