I ordered a MacBook Neo this week.
And almost immediately, a thought followed:
Did I fall for the hype?
Not regret. Just… uncertainty.
Because if I’m honest, I don’t have a clear role for it yet.
I have ideas. Vague ones.
A sense that it could become a different kind of space.
But nothing fully defined.
Which is interesting in itself.
I used to work on a Mac in the early 90s.
Back when the experience felt… different.
Slower in some ways, but also more contained.
You sat down, and you did one thing at a time.
I think part of me remembers that.
Not the machine. The feeling.
So maybe this isn’t really about the Neo at all.
Maybe it’s about trying to recreate a kind of space I don’t currently have.
Right now, everything I use is optimized for getting things done.
Production. Output. Finishing.
And I don’t know exactly where the Neo fits into that yet.
Only that I don’t want it to do the same thing.
So the question isn’t just
“Did I fall for the hype?”
It’s this:
Did I buy a tool…
or an idea of how I want to work?
I don’t have the answer yet.
But I’ll find out soon enough.
