Totally off-piste, but...

Posted by satis
Apr 26, 2021 at 09:10 PM

Pierre Paul Landry wrote:

>And the next time you suffer a power failure and lose your >precious work, you’ll regret not buying a battery powered
>device.

I keep my desktop on 24/7, and my backup software does nightly backups, in addition to using background cloud backup. I’ve used desktops for probably twenty years this way and I have never once lost any data from power failure.

More, since I want a desktop and not a portable, and since notebook batteries degrade when not regularly used and recharged, and they have a limited lifetime as well, the cost in effort to periodically discharge and recharge, and then deal down the road with a diminished battery, is a detriment and not an advantage. And since I don’t need a small second screen off to the side I’d be paying for something I don’t need and wouldn’t use.

So I do not see the need for a notebook Mac for my desktop needs. For portable use I have other devices.