Last year, I sold my laptop. I owned it for about 15 months, and in that time, I took it outside on maybe three occasions. The laptop hardly left my desk. I didn’t even open the lid, because most of the time, it was just plugged into an external monitor, speakers, keyboard, and mouse. So, I decided to ditch the laptop on craigslist and get a Mac mini instead. My first Mac mini broke, so I ordered another. The process was really simple. There’s three different Apple Stores within 15 minutes driving distance of my apartment, and all of them stock my base model Core i5 Mac mini. There’s even a courier service where Postmates will hand-deliver Apple products right to your door within 2 hours if you live close enough. I liked the extra processor cores, the extra I/O… more →