The MacBook
Its been a month now since I got my Neo and well I have to say its been pretty uneventful. Obviously the first week was mostly just finding the limits of the device seeing what I can throw at it and well, you can throw a lot at it.
Obviously all singing all dancing it is not and practically it has limits for example while I was able to open up Davinci Resolve and chop together a 4k Video and export it my M4 Mini still handles that task better but it can do it in a pinch.
The following three weeks have been a bit more mundane and more what I bought it for, which is essentially I wanted an iPad that runs MacOS and had a keyboard, and this is cheaper than just the iPad itself.
Most of the use case for me is things like writing blog posts, messing around with markdown and lite coding work, browsing the web and also using it to watch YouTube while gaming. For this its perfect, it handles even my sicko choice of Web browser, zen, with ease and the battery life I usually can go around a week between charging it, charging then taking place over night.
I have to say this a great machine, and as long as they keep selling it I will defiantly be recommending it to friends and family. The speakers, webcam, and screen sure are not as good as other Macs but man they are miles better than anything else in this price range from Dell/HP/Asus/Lenovo and the build overall rivals that of £1k machines on the windows side, the biggest win for me on a laptop of this price is the trackpad, initially I worried that being non force touch would be a big blow but man despite reverting back to a mechanical click its still a better click than my work Dell Laptop and the tracking is, as usual for a mac, excellent. This thing will continue to serve as my coffee shop web surfing and YouTube/Discord laptop for years to come.
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