I’ve been eyeing up the brand new Macbook Neo. Since I’ve decided this year is the year I take writing seriously, it occurs to me I need something decent to write on. My desktop is so configured towards drawing that it’s actually pretty uncomfortable to type at – my keyboard is pushed to the left away from the monitors, and I’ve the Huion 16″ where a normal person would have a keyboard. When I want to type seriously, I’ll lift the Huion and put it to the side and move the keyboard back in to place, and even then I’m working on an massive 27″ monitor which doesn’t really lend itself to just typing.
SO, a word processing device is what’s called for (in my head) I have an old macbook pro – from maybe 2011? it’s ancient by many standards, and is functionally a bit decripid. But it does have one terabyte of storage, because I upgraded it years ago, back when you could do that easily on a macbook.
But it’s too old. It won’t update and the main application I want to run on it is Superscript.App – which actually should run but for some reason the OS is just too old.
Recently though, my wife bought a new PC – a Lenovo, spent about £700 on it (which to be honest, I think you can buy cheap PC laptops, but to get anything decent you want to spend about £700+ on it) and so we have this.
And actually, it’s a nice machine. So I’ve set it up with an account for me (but GAH! Windows! I got caught up in a slightly kafkaesque meets Cohen bros bit when I needed authorisation to install an app and everytime it asked for authorisation it just saw my face, recognised it and then decided that I needed authorisation, then it saw my face, recognised it and repeat this insane cycle until I figured out I could break it by keying in my wife’s pin number)
I hate that microsoft computers have stupid visible stickers on them-this one has three AMD RYZEN, AMD RADEON GRAPHICS, and YOGA SLim 7 sticker. My question is – WHO ARE THESE FOR? Does the average user know or care about the branding on them? WHO ARE THESE FOR???
Anyway, that notwithstanding, the machine itself is quite lovely. Bright, good resolution, and the keyboard as well – it has lit keys, which are great for sitting on the sofa in a dark living room and typing up on.
Also, it’ll run Superscript.App, so that’s sorted then. No new Macbook for me, but I have my own account on this.
I did have to go in and start deleting idiot preferences that are set by default on a windows PC (like why does the search bar show a stupid search icon of whatever is popular, right now? the winter olympics? no thanks. I just want a search bar and actually I’m not even sure I want that)
This will do (at least until I can afford to buy a macbook of some description)
