content: I started my Apple Fanboi'ism with the IIC which was technically a portable and more so than the Lisa. I clearly remember the original Bondi Blue. The pains of watching the PPC architecture die slowly and morph into the XBox. I welcomed the death of the floppy and loved the idea of a USB standard. However, no mag safe means I'll rip that cord out eventually and I can't charge my machine and phone at the same time. And if thunderbolt is gone the possibility of docking it is gone too. Bluetooth mice and keyboards suck batteries like a whore and responsiveness is random. I need more than a Mac mini yet don't want an all in one and the garbage can is excessive in price. That leaves me with a Mac book pro 15" paired with a dock that powers 2 monitors and I'm almost happy. I need about 24 - 32 gigs of ram and a decent i7. So, I built a hackintosh for my desk top and now have 3 monitors and could probably run a 4th. My Mac book pro pre retina keeps up well enough. I am debating on just buying an old 2010 or 2011 pro aluminum tower just because I prefer having my OS stable. But yeah, I do get where you are coming from abs if I could get by with just a decent 15" Mac book pro, I'd probably be thinking like you do. The swipe pad I'm on the fence until I see applications support it.