239. Mac Neo and my afternoon of reflection and melancholy

I was (super) excited to pick up my Mac Neo today. Got the Citrus/512GB.I am completely blown away by it. It is a paradigm shifting computer.But I also have to say it made me a bit melancholy, and I’ll explain why. This is an indulgent post but it has been a decade in the making and it just took today’s Neo to put it all in perspective. Consider this my “review”.I set it up via migration and was up and running quickly. Usually the first 24 hours of a new computer are the worst time to evaluate performance as system optimizations (like Spotlight) that run in the background are doing their work.I put everything on it that was on my MBA: Apple apps, Box Sync, OneDrive, Office, Chrome, a few utilities (Keka, exif cleaner, Nikon WTU), ChatGPT, Zoom, Xcode, and set up app icons for some browser apps like Gemini and Google Remote and so on. I like to have files local so I set a subset of OneDrive and Box to sync locally (about 100GB). I have other apps that come and go. I do run some models…