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I think a lot of people use a laptop throughout the day like in our office - plugged into a large monitor, mouse, keyboard and put up on a desktop stand. You t
by christoph 11y ago
I think a lot of people use a laptop throughout the day like in our office - plugged into a large monitor, mouse, keyboard and put up on a desktop stand.
You then have the flexibility to just get up and walk into a meeting with it or walk out at the end of the day with everything just as you left it and carry on working on the train should you need.
- lmm 11y agoThe Macbook isn't very usable in that space though, since they have no first-party docking station support.
- Mister_Snuggles 11y agoI use a MacBook Pro like this every work day. Plugging in four cables (power, 2x DisplayPort, USB) is not really that big of a deal.
- slantyyz 11y agoBut if details matter (they do for a lot of Mac users), nothing beats a drop in dock. There's also no wear to the plugs or ports with a drop-in dock. When I was a die-hard Mac user, that was perhaps the only thing that I wish Macs had, minus the crashiness that docks caused on Windows.
- scholia 11y agoYou could simply add a Thunderbolt or USB 3 dock.... Using an external keyboard and mouse solves the ergonomic problems of using a laptop for long periods. (Sad to say, I see very few people actually doing this.) Of course, you don't get the benefits of running a faster, hotter processor, expandability etc, though Apple no longer offers a reasonably priced tower system anyway....
- pflats 11y agoApple's official monitors double as docking stations, with USB/Firewire/Ethernet being carried over thunderbolt. The most recent ones also half a decade old and still quite expensive, so I can't imagine buying one, but Apple would tell you that they do have a first-party docking station, complete with monitor built-in!
- redblacktree 11y agoI do it. I have four plugs to connect and disconnect once a day. (i.e. no dock) I don't really mind.