Satechi TYPE-C Aluminum Stand & Hub for Mac Mini REVIEW | MacSources

Great expansion option for the Mac Mini.

Twenty-one years. That’s the amount of time that I’ve been using a laptop as my daily-driver computer for both personal and business activities. In 2001 I decided I was on the move too much to be pinned down to a desktop even though I needed the extra storage space and power that a desktop could provide back then. I always ended up finding ways to make laptop life work for all those years. When Apple began the transition to Intel chips back in 2006, I had been doing the laptop thing so long that when I bought an iMac it was basically my home media machine — my always-on home server. My laptop was still my go-to computer and over the years, they have become just as powerful as — if not more powerful than — desktop computers.

After a year of homebound work due to the pandemic, I decided it was time for an upgrade and I opted for a Mac Mini instead of a MacBook Pro. The main reasoning for this was the power of the new Apple M1 chip. Since my work habits have changed and I am working from home 100% of the time, I found myself going without a laptop. Even though the MacMini is a wonderful computer, I still found it lacking in one area — ports. Fortunately, Satechi had a fantastic solution for connectivity with the Mac Mini — the Type-C…