TLDR

This blog may be more of a review of the MacBook Neo I got it for my birthday yesterday. And I would like to explain the reasons why.

Why?

Don’t get me wrong, I really love Linux, but sometimes it can be the pain in the ass it has me let down so many when I needed my computer most. Like some times I just want my computer to work I don’t want to spend all day tinkering with it.

Battery life

One problem that I’ve experienced with my laptops they have tearable battery life the “sleep” function on them is a joke you have power it off to save battery life. Imagine the scenario. You close your computer to put the sleep and then put in your bag. Hours later you take it out of your bag. The Laptop is warm as hell, and it’s dead. This is one of the biggest reasons for going for a mac.

Fingerprint sensor

With my Framework laptop it had a fingerprint sensor it was basically useless since you need to shut down every time you are not using it, you have to enter password every time anyways.

Framework Laptop mainboard dying

After only two years the main board in my laptop died, and I really didn’t wanna spend the money to repair it which you could do on the framework, but it would have costed at the time $500 it definitely would be more now because of the ram thing.

Other reasons

There are a bunch of other reasons like some small Linux quirks, but it was mostly battery life that made me really look at the Mac and go hmmmmmm🤔

Initial impressions

My first day with the MacBook now has been pretty nice. The battery life has been phenomenal like way better than I expected. Be back on macOS. It’s been pretty impressive. Honestly I also really like the mail client. I finally got all my email accounts in one place.

Some things I miss my old MacBook Pro, like the charge indicator on the side of the laptop and maybe the sleep indicator it wasn’t really useful, but it looked neat. Also, kind of miss iTunes. Even though I use navidrome most of the time anyway. I found a perfect client for that on the Mac App Store.

Which leads me into the software compatibility. Most apps support Apple Silicon now. But Ableton Live 10 still uses the old Intel architecture which uses Rosetta. I’m assuming that’s Apple’s interpreter it works well for the most part, but sometimes it acts really weird. I might upgrade to Ableton Live 12. But I’m still on the fence about that.

My beef with the weather App 😡

One would say, bigtin why you have beef with a weather app Well, there’s a very good story to this. So there used to be an app called Darksky on Android. And then Apple bought them and eliminated the Android app😭 and I thought I was the only who cared. But then I was listening to the waveform Podcast by Marques Brownlee and was also complaning about this it made feel validated.

Don’t get me wrong. I do really like the Apple weather app. I appreciate some information like the wind map and I really like how the ten-day forecast is laid out. So all in all, it’s not that bad.

iTunes

Even though iTunes is gone, we still got Apple Music and the iTunes store, so we can still buy music and download it, which is crazy coming from Apple.

Dictation

A feature that I thought was incredibly cool on my old MacBook was speech-to-text. You could just press the button on the computer, and you could just say the words that you wanted to type down. I didn’t think they still had that feature, but It’s literally the F5 key on the laptop. It works way better than most other speech-to-text things on the market honestly.

Keyboard

Dictation is nice, but I really just like typing on the keyboard. It just feels great. I’m not much of a laptop connoisseur, but this is better than most of that I’ve used.

Conclusion

Over all I love using this computer and would definitely recommend

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