I’m planning to pick up a MacBook Air tomorrow. I haven’t decided on the color yet.
I have the sky blue iPad Air M2 and I really like that color, but I’m a bit worried if it’s going to be too much after a while on a laptop where you see the color of it more.
For those that have had the sky blue air for a while, how is it holding up in your eyes?
I have used macs since i walked into a store to buy an iPod shuffle and walked out with an iBook (and no iPod) in 2005 or so.
I have previously been somewhat of a higher demand user. I had a 2013 MBP for photo editing and retouching. I had it for 5 ish years before i sold it when i decided to not continue with a photography career. Picked up a 2019 i5 13" base model to replace it. That one was.. not very good so it ended up just gathering dust until i sold it.
Since i sold my 2013 MBP i have mostly been consuming content on my personal devices, so i have been using my iPhone and iPad, and didn't own a computer until last year.
In the last 2-3 years i have been coming back to photography again, with landscape and nature, which has less need for retouching than fashion and people, so i have been fine editing that with Lightroom on my iPad. First with the 2018 iPad Pro and now the M2 Air.
Last fall i picked up a M1 mac mini to have my own computer again, and not having to rely on my work laptop for stuff that's best done on a computer. But it's placed in my home office, and since work a lot from home it's not that fun to sit in front of after work. So it functions mostly as a server, doing backups and such.
I have long been thinking it could be nice to have a mac laptop again, but for my needs i just couldn't defend the cost.
Forward to the MacBook Neo. After seeing all the reviews praising it i picked up a 512Gb version before the weekend, and for being basically the same as my iPhone 16 Pro but with MacOS and a keyboard it has been pretty great. Regular day to day use with browsing and so on is fine, no hiccups or slowdowns. I have tried it out a little with Lightroom and it feels fine. It might be a second or two slower in loading images when they're in the cloud and using AI editing compared to my iPad, but more or less the same as my Mac mini, which is fine.
I think this machine will be fine for me and a lot of people for at least a couple years, hopefully longer.
I think one of my takeaways from this is that todays phones are overpowered for most users.