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   jaseg (jaseg@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 18:40:20 JST jaseg

   • obrhoff

   @obrhoff if you plan on commuting or traveling with the laptop, I think the light laptop plus beefy desktop option is best. I remember upgrading my main laptop from a 10 year old, 2.5kg chonker to a modern 1kg ultralight and how much nicer that thing is to carry in my backpack now.

   A secondary plus is that in the age of thunderbolt, docking solutions all suck, especially on apple devices (poor display output support), and with the desktop you might not have to dock the laptop.

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     obrhoff (obrhoff@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 18:51:53 JST obrhoff

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     @jaseg Indeed. I used to have a iMac and a Macbook Air and it was really good.

     It makes me a little bit nervous that my sole computer might break when I travel since I'm totally dependent on that thing.

     Also SSD Upgrades are so expensive that it seems way cheaper to just plug your external SSD into your MacStudio instead of upgrading it on a MacBook Pro.

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     jaseg (jaseg@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 18:58:05 JST jaseg

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     • obrhoff

     @obrhoff yeah, the SSD prices are crazy. If you don’t need to access all your storage on the go, a NAS could allow both laptop and desktop to access arbitrary amounts of storage at least while you are at home. I wouldn’t want to care around a portable SSD because I feel they’re easy to loose or get stolen.

     For the broken laptop while traveling scenario, with appple devices at least you can get a new one within a day or so in most developed countries.