{"id":1218,"date":"2026-03-20T20:38:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:46:40","slug":"macbook-neo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/20\/macbook-neo\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Neo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Image.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>The golden unicorn. Or in my case, the Indigo unicorn. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbook-neo\/\">MacBook Neo<\/a>. Apple computers\/laptops have always been sold at a premium. Since my hardest processor hitting applications or utilities that I use can be easily handled on an iPad, I haven\u2019t been able to justify buying an Apple computer\/laptop for a while I\u2019ve been computerless for over 10 years now. And happy about it. I haven\u2019t missed hardly a thing from my laptop days. The one thing I have missed? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barebones.com\/products\/bbedit\/\">BBEdit<\/a>. Shit how I\u2019ve missed that lowly text editor. From the days of version 5, circa 1999. And it was always available on the CD that accompanied MacAddict magazine. Bare Bones Software have never seen fit to make it available for iOS. So that made me gravitate towards <a href=\"https:\/\/ia.net\/writer\">iA Writer<\/a>. In fact, I\u2019m using iA Writer to write this very article.<\/p>\n<p>My iPad Air coupled with the Magic Keyboard *is* my laptop. Everything I want to do can be done on this setup. Writing. Reading. Communication in its various forms. Web browsing. Domain admin. Music\/video entertainment. Occasional video editing. Not very processor-intensive stuff. And it does it with pizazz! Fast! If I could put up with the small screen of my iPhone Air, my phone could handle all of the above.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve often wondered why someone hasn\u2019t yet developed the shell of a laptop &#8211; you know &#8211; the case, keyboard, screen, trackpad, and ports and all I do is open a door or something and place my iPhone in there. Bam! Laptop. Basically, this is what Apple has done, only they included the guts of an iPhone 16 Pro Max into it. Perfect. Certainly enough to handle what I do with ease and grace.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I pre-ordered the Indigo Blue MacBook Neo. It\u2019s less expensive than my current iPad\/Magic Keyboard setup.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to now. A week after my MacBook Neo arrived. I\u2019ve had a few days to put it through some tests. It has surpassed all expectations. I\u2019ve downloaded BBEdit. <a href=\"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/marsedit\/\">MarsEdit<\/a>. And iA Writer. Currently using iA Writer for Mac to finish this article. Seamless transfer as I would have expected. I hope to use MarsEdit to post this article directly to my blog, Walt\u2019s Corner. We\u2019ll see how that works. I\u2019ll close out of here and open this text file on my iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>Now I\u2019m editing it on my iPhone. I\u2019ll quit from here and open it up on my iPad.<\/p>\n<p>Now on my iPad. Smooth transition. I\u2019ll switch back over to my MacBook&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And finally back on the MacBook. Sweet. The only bummer is that you have to purchase the Mac version separately from the iOS version unless you want to purchase iA Writer as a subscription &#8211; which I don\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about buying one? I read today that all orders accepted now aren\u2019t expected to be fullfilled until the end of April. Apple can\u2019t keep up with the demand.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The golden unicorn. Or in my case, the Indigo unicorn. MacBook Neo. Apple computers\/laptops have always been sold at a premium. Since my hardest processor hitting applications or utilities that I use can be easily handled on an iPad, I haven\u2019t been able to justify buying an Apple computer\/laptop for a while I\u2019ve been computerless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[162,651,652,69,649,650],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple","tag-apple","tag-bbedit","tag-ia-writer","tag-mac","tag-macbook-neo","tag-marsedit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}