I remember years ago when I sold my laptop to buy a new ipad.
I thought that I was spending money on an upgrade in features and capabilities from one device to the next.
Somehow I didn’t get the memo about the limits of mobile devices and their operating systems. For one, I was moving from Windows to an Apple mobile operating system. Moving to any kind of Apple operating system would always entail a loss of features for me. I use a lot of software that is only accessible through the Windows platform. Sure, the tablet had a fairly large app store, but I had to compromise with mobile software. Some applications are amazing while others can be unstable, if not outright unusable. I had a similar episode with my air conditioners in my apartment. My home is a single bedroom apartment with a large living room and kitchen. Before I decided to attempt an upgrade with my HVAC equipment, I had one window air conditioner in my bedroom and another in the living room near the entrance to the kitchen. At first I decided to buy a brand new portable air conditioner and put it in the living room. My intention was to eventually buy a second portable air conditioner to replace the window unit in my bedroom. I had read that portable air conditioners had many features that window units lack, and I naively assumed that meant portable a/cs were better machines. They’re extremely inefficient with energy use and they recycle conditioned air to cool their hot compressors inside the same metal enclosure as their cold evaporation stage. These components are intended to be separated for a reason—that’s why compressors are put outdoors in all other HVAC systems.