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Used for: 6–12 months
Text looks printed, not rendered
The screen is the part that justifies it. Text at arm's length looks printed rather than rendered, and after a full day of invoices my eyes are not doing that gritty thing they used to do by four o'clock. Speakers are far better than a machine this thin has any business having, though you would still want proper ones for music.
Used for: 1–3 months
Startup is quicker than the kettle
Boots to the desktop in the time it takes the kettle to click off, though the kettle is louder
Used for: Less than a month
Setup took one evening, migration and all
The mouse charges from underneath, which is a joke
Set it up on the kitchen table in about ten minutes, migrated everything off the old machine overnight, and it has not asked me a single question since!
Used for: 1–3 months
One cable to the wall and that is the whole setup
Only two USB-C ports, so a hub is inevitable
Replaced a tower and two boxes of cables with one slab of aluminium and the desk has never looked so empty. Silent even with a dozen tabs open!
Used for: 6–12 months
Wakes and is ready before I am
Memory is soldered, so what you buy is what you keep
Bought as a replacement for a nine-year-old tower that had got to the point where opening the accounts spreadsheet meant going to make tea. This wakes from sleep before I have finished sitting down, and the fan has never once been audible in a room where I can hear the fridge two doors away. What I did not think about until it was on the desk is that the memory is soldered in. Twenty-four gigs is generous now and will still be fine in three years, but the whole point of the old tower was that I kept feeding it. Here what you buy is what you keep, and the only upgrade path is an external drive hanging off the back. Worth knowing before you choose the smaller option to save a bit.
Used for: 6–12 months
Gave me back the whole space under the desk
Everything needs an adapter, so the tidy back is a fiction
The footprint is the thing nobody warns you about in a good way. There is no tower under the desk, no box on the desk, just a stand and a screen, and I got back an entire drawer unit's worth of floor. Cleaning under it takes ten seconds! Where it falls down is the ports. Everything you own that is not new needs an adapter, and once you have a hub plugged in the tidy back panel is a lie again. Mine has a monitor lead, a printer and a card reader hanging off one little dock, which rather spoils the effect. Ten months in and I have made peace with it, but I still resent the cost of the dongles.
Used for: 6–12 months
Silent, and quicker than the work machine
Still boots faster than the work laptop and it has never made a sound
Used for: Less than a month
Looks like furniture, not like a computer
Bought it for the spare room so the household stops fighting over the laptop. It looks like furniture rather than a computer, which was half the argument won. Three weeks in and it is quiet enough to sit next to a sleeping baby!