{"id":8239,"date":"2020-05-31T16:26:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=8239"},"modified":"2020-05-31T16:26:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T20:26:02","slug":"technology-no-laptop-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2020\/05\/31\/technology-no-laptop-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology: No Laptop 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1224,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/49956606418&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251103190449\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/49956606418&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-18 01:33:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-25 02:53:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-30 14:01:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-02 19:59:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-16 05:38:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-23 02:57:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-30 06:25:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-30 06:25:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Add this to the COVID-19 checklist but I no longer own a notebook computer in 2020. A week ago, I realized that I had not touched my MacBook Pro since starting this work from home scenario with my employer 11 weeks ago. Seriously\u2026.3 months without using my computer. This is a $3500 laptop that sat in my bag downstairs by the front door for 3 months without being used. Apple actually has documented guidance about this sort of thing and how to store a MacBook when not being used for 6 months or more:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>If you plan to store your device for longer than six months, charge it to 50% every six months.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, very helpful so plug it in every 6 months to 50%. Keep in mind that technology is a highly depreciating asset. Storing my MacBook Pro until we return to the office in January is simply stupid financially. In July of 2018, I spent 3,589.00 for this computer\u2026fully loaded and unfortunately a lot about this computer became out of date nearly immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the specs:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>2.9GHz 6\u2011core 8th\u2011generation Intel Core i9 processor, Turbo Boost up to 4.8GHz<br \/>Retina display with True Tone<br \/>Touch Bar and Touch ID<br \/>Radeon Pro 560X with 4GB of GDDR5 memory<br \/>32GB 2400MHz DDR4 memory<br \/>1TB SSD storage<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the 3rd generation butterfly keyboard from Apple. The 4th generation came out soon after and I hear that if I ever had keyboard issues, Apple would replace the keyboard with the 4th generation model. There\u2019s still 3 years left on the keyboard warranty at this time. I personally never had keyboard issues but they are rampant. In addition, that Radeon Pro 560X was the top of the line GPU but in October of 2018, just 4 months after I received this computer, Apple upgraded the GPUs to Vega as BTO options. Which were a little faster but ran a lot cooler.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heat\u2026the biggest enemy of this computer. The Core i9 immediately came under pressure from the Internet with throttling issues with many people saying \u201cjust stick it in a freezer\u201d they weren\u2019t wrong and although Apple addressed the throttling with a software update, the issue persisted. This computer was amazingly fast until I really needed it to perform at its peak. I\u2019m talking 5K monitor, transcoding 4K videos in HEVC format and importing Canon RAW images into Lightroom and this thing would slow to a craw. The fan simply couldn\u2019t spin any faster and the casing did not allow for proper heat dissipation. Remember too that 32GB of RAM was larger and used more power so we had a power hungry CPU from Intel, Power hungry GPU and hungry RAM. It didn\u2019t discharge when plugged in but it pulled a TON of power.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as the 16\u201d shipped, I wanted it but I was waiting for the 2nd generation 16\u201d MacBook Pro and I\u2019m still waiting\u2026this Summer \/ Fall most likely.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is, the 15\u201d MacBook Pro wasn\u2019t pushed hard that often. In fact, it lived plugged in to a Thunderbolt 3 dock at my office desk about 90% of its life. I used my iPad Pro in meetings so the MBP pretty much was always plugged in. I also re-configured my iPad Pro\u2019s setup to allow for motorcycle travel so my MacBook Pro was no longer going with me on trips. The only time it got unplugged was when I did work travel which I did quite a bit of in 2019. Amsterdam, Berlin, Gent, London, Florida (twice) and DC (twice). On those trips, the heat and speed were frankly annoying versus my iMac at home. It would so quickly throttle from heat that the extra premium I paid for CPU+GPU+RAM becomes useless money. This computer WAS super fast but only in ideal conditions and when you didn\u2019t want to push it too hard.<\/p>\n<p>I think Apple\u2019s thinness combined with Intel\u2019s chipsets just made this a terrible combination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I sold this computer for $2250, a depreciation of $1339 in 2 years. Frankly, fantastic as far as technology goes but a bit less than the computer is worth because I\u2019ve found that while I get more money when selling on eBay, I then get hit with nearly 20% in fees so I sold via a non eBay site with a lot less traffic so I probably netted around the same after eBay \/ PayPal fees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A depreciation of about $60 a month isn\u2019t insane. Seriously it\u2019s pretty damn good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, on to COVID and Working From Home. My home setup is fantastic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View &#039;Work from Home 2020 Setup Desk&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/49956606418\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  title=\"Work from Home 2020 Setup Desk\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Work from Home 2020 Setup Desk\"  width=\"800\"  height=\"600\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49956606418_9f2662f4b2_c.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After 3 months with this setup and not touching my laptop at all and now selling the laptop, I have an anxiety around this whole thing. Rationally, I will not be using a MacBook Pro this year. No travel, no office, no meetings in person. I didn\u2019t need it and since it\u2019d probably be worth $1500 at the end of this year, there was no point in keeping it but guys\u2026this is my laptop.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had one for almost 20 years. I got my first laptop in January of 2001, an iBook and I\u2019ve had one since then moving through the various generations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Part of this transition is thanks to both the amazing quality and price of Apple\u2019s iMac. This is an amazingly fast computer and it\u2019s quiet and fast and takes anything I can throw at it but the real star of the show is Apple\u2019s iPad Pro now affixed to a Magic Keyboard. The iPad Pro was my mobile computer for meetings, in person activities, cafe writing sessions and blog posts like this one. It also is my primary computer for motorcycle travel. I put it in my top box in a Waterfield bag that has an Anker USB-C charger + a few USB-C cables for iPhone and Apple Watch and my iPad is my only computer for trips so far up to 14 days and I don\u2019t need a computer. Sure I need one for media projects and large scale project management but I can get by on the iPad enough that I\u2019m not completely disconnected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, thanks to Apple\u2019s amazing iMac and iPad Pro, I can work from home without a laptop this year. Honestly, if I never had to travel for work as in work out of a European office for 3-5 days a few times a year, I actually think I could run a Mac mini at work and then an iMac at home and totally get by. The iPad Pro is fine for meetings when I\u2019m only 75 feet away from my Mac mini. I use Omni-Apps and Office 365 suite and now Lightroom \/ Photoshop Mobile. The iPad is NOT a laptop replacement but do I really need to spend $3000+ on a MacBook Pro when we go back to the office in 10 months or can I just grab a Mac mini and work that way? We\u2019ll see but for now, I\u2019m laptop less and it\u2019s a super weird feeling.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Add this to the COVID-19 checklist but I no longer own a notebook computer in 2020. 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