Previously on “A Writing Workstation”

A couple months ago I put together a fairly lengthy post about getting an old MacBook set up to be a writing machine. It was pretty encouraging, the idea of having a machine that would just be for one thing. At the time of writing that post I was diving pretty deep into my work and I realized I was not in a “writing mode,” but I was also hopeful a little writing would happen with this new, old laptop. I’m not going to blame it all on this one thing, but at the end of that post I said: I hate the feeling of typing on this thing enough that I’m considering an inexpensive Keychron keyboard to sit on my lap while I write. That doesn’t seem conducive to actually writing, though. I wrote once with that laptop and never went back. So I’ve been on the lookout for a different option. My finger has hovered over the order buttons for both a Freewrite Traveler and a used MacBook One. With the Freewrite, I was hesitant about the lag between typing and the screen, and lets not talk about the price…