Macbook Pro permanently docked , safe?

[Macs4u]

Hi,

Just purchased a MacBook Pro Early 2013 - 2.7/16gb/512gb and want to use it docked mostly at home and then when I go out , take it with me possibly. I know I can get a henge dock etc but for now could I used it closed but permanently on or on standby when I go to sleep or don't use it and it be safe? Will be using it for music production and have been using a Mac mini i7 quad core which has been great but wanted portability. Benchmarked this against it and is approaching 20% faster. I will have it connected to my 32" quad hd monitor. Will it automatically scale to 2560x1440 when I connect it via dp or do I have to manually change it that every time I dock and undock?

Matt

 

[bcbickers]

My 2016 13" tbMBP is docked to two 22" external displays and Logitech kb/mouse 90% of the time with no issues. When I take it with me then "redock", the monitors remember their settings as long as I plug in the same cable to the same port as before. I labelled my display cables, so it all comes back online correctly.

Best guess is you will be fine. That said, I doubt I tax the processor as much as you might with content creation. I am an IT architect so my usage pattern is the full MSOffice suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive sync), Skype for Business (conf calls, desktop sharing, and such), and a Parallels VM running Win10 for Microsoft Visio. So the standard disclaimer applies...YMMV.

 

[Macs4u]

Cheers for the reply. It does remember the settings which is good! Works really good in closed mode. The fan does come on sometimes when taxing it a bit but don’t mind that so much as almost always got music playing when it’s doing that.

 

[bartvk]

Just a tip... I regularly experience crashes when disconnecting my 2016 15" MBP in clamshell mode. I always make sure it's open when I connect/disconnect external monitors.

 

[Macs4u]

Cheers for that. Read it after I disconnected it closed and it didn't crash for me but will keep an eye on it.