See how deep the rabbit hole goes

Over the past 6 months I haven’t really used my iPad Pro for anything, trying to do any coding tasks on it was a chore and required external services or hardware. It is great for media consumption and playing iOS games but not great for sitting in a coffee shop to work on code (yes, I know this is a cliché).

So, when the MacBook Neo was announced I decided to price out what a trade-in would net me and it came out to over £550, leaving me with around £150 to pay for a 512GB model that has TouchID.

Going from a device with an M4 inside it to an A18 Pro feels like it would be massive step down but for what I wanted the Neo for (light coding, game emulation, travel) it has been amazing. The 8GB of RAM that the machine has is constantly at 80% due to my Safari tab habits but I haven’t noticed any huge performance hits in the stuff I’ve been doing.

Something I’ve noticed about myself as well is that when I have an Apple device I tend to baby it for trade-in or resale potential but since I don’t intend to do either of those things with the Neo I’m going to stickerbomb it which I haven’t done since my Thinkpad X201.