I always preferred portable Macs to workstations, and over the years I moved from a late 2008 MacBook Pro to a 2011 MacBook Air and, in 2015, back to the (now Retina) MacBook Pro again. As listeners of Connected know, one of the show’s long-running jokes was that I would buy my last Mac ever as soon as Apple released a new Mac mini 1 when it happened, I took the opportunity to completely rethink my home office with a new desk, well-specced Mac mini, and 4K display that supported both modern Macs and iPad Pros via USB-C.Įffectively, I had never owned a desktop Mac until 2 this Mac mini arrived. You can find more installments here and subscribe to the dedicated RSS feed.Īfter several years without updates to a product that, somewhat oddly, “ remained in Apple’s lineup”, the Mac mini was revived by the company last November with a major redesign geared toward pro users and designed for flexibility. IPad Diaries is a regular series about using the iPad as a primary computer.
