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What Mac to get as a start?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1544878"><p>I wouldn't classify the iMac in the laptop category. It doesn't have a battery, is portable only in the sense that a cast-iron stove with handles is portable, and isn't designed to go anywhere but on a desktop. True, it's not a Mac Pro, but it's definitely not laptop.</p><p></p><p>I think the new MBPs are a better choice than the same size MBAs. And Nick is right, tablets, good as they are, are no substitute for a true laptop.</p><p></p><p>Now for my own solution I went with a BIG laptop, the MBP 17" size, because I wanted the screen real estate when on the road. My wife has a 13" MBP, and while it works fine as a small emergency backup laptop, I don't like the size of the screen for any long term serious work. On the road, all I have to carry is the laptop and power supply, along with an Ethernet cable for those hotels/motels stuck in the 90's who don't have WiFi. At home, I leave the power cable and Ethernet cable in the bag, plop the laptop on my desk and connect two things--the two ends of the cable that goes to my Thunderbolt display. One is the MagSafe power connector and the other is the Thunderbolt connector. All my local drives are connected to the display ports and the display is plugged into the mains and supplies the power through the aforementioned cable to the laptop.</p><p></p><p>So you may want to look at some solution that would avoid as many cables as you can. Even a USB hub, with your various peripherals that require connection, could be a solution to avoid the snake pit of wires on the desktop. Plug the peripherals into the hub, have one cable for laptop to hub and when you get home, you have two things to do--power and that one cable. Invest in a second power supply and put that one on the desk and you can leave the traveling one in your bag. All you have to move is the laptop!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1544878"] I wouldn't classify the iMac in the laptop category. It doesn't have a battery, is portable only in the sense that a cast-iron stove with handles is portable, and isn't designed to go anywhere but on a desktop. True, it's not a Mac Pro, but it's definitely not laptop. I think the new MBPs are a better choice than the same size MBAs. And Nick is right, tablets, good as they are, are no substitute for a true laptop. Now for my own solution I went with a BIG laptop, the MBP 17" size, because I wanted the screen real estate when on the road. My wife has a 13" MBP, and while it works fine as a small emergency backup laptop, I don't like the size of the screen for any long term serious work. On the road, all I have to carry is the laptop and power supply, along with an Ethernet cable for those hotels/motels stuck in the 90's who don't have WiFi. At home, I leave the power cable and Ethernet cable in the bag, plop the laptop on my desk and connect two things--the two ends of the cable that goes to my Thunderbolt display. One is the MagSafe power connector and the other is the Thunderbolt connector. All my local drives are connected to the display ports and the display is plugged into the mains and supplies the power through the aforementioned cable to the laptop. So you may want to look at some solution that would avoid as many cables as you can. Even a USB hub, with your various peripherals that require connection, could be a solution to avoid the snake pit of wires on the desktop. Plug the peripherals into the hub, have one cable for laptop to hub and when you get home, you have two things to do--power and that one cable. Invest in a second power supply and put that one on the desk and you can leave the traveling one in your bag. All you have to move is the laptop! [/QUOTE]
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