I can’t adapt to internet on the phone; I need a desktop.
we bought a mini last year, and it’s been wonderful.
For our needs, it works just as well as the old big one and takes up about a third of the real estate.
The other advantage is that they tend to use very little power especially at idle. So, when the one that I am using right now which is serving a website in the background with the monitor off... it is using less than 5 watts.
My next door neighbor has one attached to the back of each of his TVs because he prefers using them over a Roku, FireTV, AppleTV or other device for streaming. . Another friend has a MAC mini which he just loves
My phone lets me switch from desktop mode to mobile mode.
But not for what I use a laptop for like Excel. Laptops sort things easier like photos.