Recent Grads or Desktop Users: Do You Use Your MacBooks?

[theturtle]

A purchasing itch has come over me recently. I briefly typed on the 2018 MacBook Pro's and the keyboard definitely felt different than when I had my 2017 15".
The problem is, I just don't find myself using a laptop much. I had a 2017 13" nTB and then a 2017 15" but I ended up selling both as I rarely used it due to having a desktop at home. Also, spending 2K on a laptop you use maybe 2 hours a week seems a bit much....
Still, I find myself yearning for those new MacBooks. Do you guys find yourself using your MacBooks less if you have a desktop or is your Mac your go to?

 

[jerryk]

A purchasing itch has come over me recently. I briefly typed on the 2018 MacBook Pro's and the keyboard definitely felt different than when I had my 2017 15".
The problem is, I just don't find myself using a laptop much. I had a 2017 13" nTB and then a 2017 15" but I ended up selling both as I rarely used it due to having a desktop at home. Also, spending 2K on a laptop you use maybe 2 hours a week seems a bit much....
Still, I find myself yearning for those new MacBooks. Do you guys find yourself using your MacBooks less if you have a desktop or is your Mac your go to?

I only use my MBP an hour a day or less. I have a desktop machine with 2 or 3 monitors, 8-core processor, two RTX 2070 cards, 32 GB or memory and 2 TB of SSDs. It runs cool (45C max) and silent and process work so much faster than my 2018 15" MPB. In addition it has a great keyboard with MX Brown switches and a Logitech MX 2S mouse.

Still, I find that having a laptop essential because I sometime want to work remotely, go to meetup, speak at events, etc.

 

[bill-p]

Well, it depends on what you do. Sounds like you don't work at a job where having a computer is necessary at all.

I work as a software engineer and... my MacBook essentially is life or death. It practically never knows what "sleep" is. I split the computer up into 2 accounts, one for work stuffs and environments, and the other for personal stuffs. It gets used more than 8-9 hours a day... for a whole 7 days of the week.

In college, I used to have enough free time to game a bit here and there, so my desktop got more use back then. Nowadays, I use the MacBook as a desktop (plug it into an external monitor) because I sometimes (read: almost all the time) need to access work at home. It goes from home to work and back, and at work, I don't just sit at my cubicle for longer than an hour before something else requires me to move. It could be a meeting, my colleagues needing something from me, or my boss wanting to see if something works, etc...

And that's on top of events, meetups, "socializing" with clients, etc...