Well, I now have a secondhand MacBook Pro and I can't say I'm thrilled. It's slower than anything I had before (HP Pavillion). Could be the fact that's it's secondhand of course but I've worked on a Mac desktop too a few years ago, and had the exact same experience.
My husband has a desktop and a mouse, but I can't turn it on during the day or the kids might wreck it, so my lappy is high up on the closet.
A good oldfashioned desktop and a mouse still has my preference AT ALL TIMES. When something croaks my husband just takes it apart and we only have to replace the broken stuff. No bloody weeks waiting for crappy service 'under warranty'. Our very first desktop croaked and my husband had an inkling it was the mainboard. Now of course they don't really want to replace that because it's quite an expensive part. After a 3 weeks wait we get the puter back 'fixed', get home, try it out...still doesn't work. Husband takes it apart. You know what they did? Not replace the mainboard, but replace the new PSU with an old one! The second time they had just put the original PSU in and the third time my husband showed his 'don't fuck with me'-face which scared the serviceguy so hard that he went to get the manager and we finally got what we needed in less than 5 minutes.
We even threw out all the cordless stuff again because it just does not work as well, nor lasts as long, nor is it healthy.
Same goes for cars. My brother used to have an old VW Golf, never had to go to the shop, replaced everything himself. I absolutely hate all those new automatic gimmicks on a car. Can't even open a window nowadays if the battery is empty.
It's all greedy business and consumerism, masked with 'oh hey, this is so much easier for you'. I now have friends who can't even find my house without a gps. Each time they call "what was your address again?".
Technology also makes us lazy and dependent. For every upside, there is a downside.