Will a mini travel well? what precautions to take if I travel with it?

My life will involve ping-ponging between two addresses over the coming year, and for vision reasons I'm not suited to using a laptop. Need a biggish monitor.
So, I'm asking you long-time mini users out there:
How would I fare if I get a mac mini and use it at home with my existing home peripherals, and buy a monitor and cheap keyboard/mouse to leave at the other end, and travel back and forth with just the mini?
I am wondering if it is too delicate to travel with.
I would not be expecting to use it in motels, airports, etc. while I am traveling. Just want to have it fully usable at both locations.
Has anyone else travelled with their machines, and has anyone found or seen a hard-shell case that the mac mini will pack into well?
Thanks!
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Hi "ed" - to answer your question, I haven't inspected one in person, but I'm sure that the top-end MacBook Pro displays would be fine for my vision.
However, then we start getting into budget constraints... that would be sort of a "Lexus" expenditure where my budget is more "Scion."
I can probably afford a bigger-screen laptop in the PC marketplace, but I haven't looked, actually -- I don't really even need to use a laptop as a laptop, if you see what I mean.
And if I want to switch to Apple, which now'll be a good opportunity to do, I can't afford any of their laptop options (if brand new) at all-- So, I think my only options, budget-wise, are:
(1) to set up a mini at the other end with bare-bones KB and mouse, and a spare monitor I already have, and ferry the CPU back and forth as desired (sometimes would just leave it there).
Then, if as time passes my eyes get even worse, I can always upgrade to gradually-ever-bigger screen sizes.
Or, (2) to take a chance on a pre-owned smaller/older notebook, like the student-sized macbook, which I'd use the same way-- that would solve all of the airport/portability challenges, all right, but if it broke after a month I'd sure be wishing I'd gone with (1), wouldn't I?
I'm sort of timid about going with anything used, partly because I will be totally new to Apple, and it might not always be clear whether any problems I'd encounter with used equipment would be due to its own malfunction, or just to my own learning curve!!
I was hoping the Apple store website would have some reconditioned or "scratch and dent" laptops on offer, that would have a warranty, but there's nothing.
Thanks for listening! I'll think of your suggestion the next time I am watching the airline baggage guys muscle those checked bags around.... and I'll study how hard they really get slammed.
So far, I've never had occasion to put anything more delicate in a checked bag than a $5 alarm clock.... so I've never paid much attention.... but we've all heard the jokes!!
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