The Beelink Mate Pro

Even though I already have probably too many desks (my main work desk, a standing desk that has probably been improvised for far too long, and an occasional tactical take-over of our dining table), I spend around a third of my working hours on a laptop of some kind. There are also three more people in the house, so the plight of the semi-nomadic laptop user who needs a quick, unobtrusive way to recharge while working or a temporary makeshift desk has become somewhat of a family thing, which in turn means I’ve been casually looking for a simple, functional, non-eyesore laptop dock for a while. The Mate Pro in action, charging my earbuds. That I ended up finding something that can act as a high-speed backup drive, HDMI dock and conference speaker I could take on vacation was, as Bob Ross would put it, just a happy accident. Disclaimer: Beelink sent me a Mate Pro free of charge, and, as usual, this review follows my review policy. In The Box Opening the box yielded a nice surprise–a…