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Another option is a 'maxed out' mini e.g M5 Pro/64GB. Mini is super easy to travel with if you know there'll be a 'dock' at the far end e.g office<>home or what
by matt-p 23d ago
Another option is a 'maxed out' mini e.g M5 Pro/64GB. Mini is super easy to travel with if you know there'll be a 'dock' at the far end e.g office<>home or whatever.
- msdz 23d agoSo I can somewhat speak to this, as I actually did this for a while c. 2021 and 2022. The issue (apart from my Mac mini still having the old, bigger form factor back then) is that this requires a full shutdown (obviously), and that is more friction than opening a closed laptop lid. It just takes a moment for every app and background service etc. to settle back in after, and depending on how your brain works, you might not like that a whole lot. It absolutely is a cool feeling to carry a pretty mighty desktop in the backpack, though.
- matt-p 23d agoI think it's actually good to have a forced reboot from time to time, but then I'm not very disciplined in closing stuff I'm no-longer using! Especially like docker containers I was using months ago, that I forgot to shutdown.
- msdz 23d agoYeah, I agree (with the same unfortunate habit) – but up to twice a day of forced work full stop is overdoing it, too.
- reddit_clone 23d agoIs there no hibernation option ?
- tom_ 22d agoYou don't get the option in the UI: there's just "Sleep", which on a desktop Mac seems to suspend to RAM only. At least, it seems to on mine, as I found out when I unplugged it. (Apparently the laptops do a suspend to disk depending on battery remaining, so the OS does support it. It'd be nice to have it available! The disk space required could become annoying if you only bought the 1 TB SSD for your fancy 512 GB Mac though.)
- olyjohn 22d agoPretty sure hibernation is dead. Deep sleep states use such nominal power, I think they decided it wasn't worth it.
- mettamage 23d agoWhat if you have some battery system working? Then technically, you could travel with it
- msdz 23d agoAnd imagine plugging a small iPad screen into the thing with sidecar… Almost like a Macbook!
- boromisp 23d agoAt that point you lose too much convenience. Maybe if someone built a mini UPS with at least 10000Ah capacity, USB-C 4 pass-through and the right form factor to permanently attach it on top of the mini.
- jiveturkey 23d agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8okiCCZk7U8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8okiCCZk7U8
- mettamage 21d agoOh! The fact that touch and pencil is natively supported for macos is neat!
- anentropic 23d agoI did this for a few years, going further back in time. The shutdown thing didn't bother me, and in fact the Mini was lighter than a Macbook Air at the time. So all in all it was pretty convenient.
- lostlogin 23d ago> that this requires a full shutdown The mini sips a truly tiny amount of power. I wonder what the smallest/lightest UPS could could bundle it with would be. But at this point.. you’ve got a shit laptop.
- abhinavk 22d agoDoes macOS not have hibernate/suspend-to-disk?
- seviu 23d agoA part of my brain can’t process acquiring a Mac Mini M5 Pro knowing that they sell M6 despite being aware that it is just a weaker processor. It will get worse with the MacBook ultra rocking a M5 too. Apple’s marketing department is gonna kill me.
- kridsdale1 23d agoThink about it maybe like: I want a 2026 pickup truck. The dealer also sells a 2027 hatchback. I am not shopping for a hatchback.