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  "description": "Andy Nicolaides: I’m not a Pro, and that’s okay.\n\nI started to realise recently, but was fully reconciled in my mind after using the MacBook Neo for a few days. The realisation is that, when it comes to my personal devices at least, I’m not a pro and I don’t need the best / top of the range of every product I get to get a lot of joy, and productivity out of them. This is a completely obvious statement to most people reading this I imagine, and it’s kind of blown my mind it took me so long to rea",
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  "textContent": "Andy Nicolaides: I’m not a Pro, and that’s okay.\n\n> I started to realise recently, but was fully reconciled in my mind after using the MacBook Neo for a few days. The realisation is that, when it comes to my personal devices at least, I’m not a pro and I don’t need the best / top of the range of every product I get to get a lot of joy, and productivity out of them. This is a completely obvious statement to most people reading this I imagine, and it’s kind of blown my mind it took me so long to realise it.\n\nOther than my spell check really not liking the \"realise\" spelling my British friend uses here, I love this article. Andy points out something I've been wresting around with for a while as well: our computers are better (way better?) than they need to be.\n\nThe MacBook Neo is a fuckin' irresistible (I saw two in first class on a recent flight!) and the iPhone Air isn't lighting up the sales charts, but even I can't help but enjoy using this single-camera, okay-battery phone sometimes. By all accounts, the 17 Pro iPhones are selling quite well too, and part of that is because they're technically very good, but I can't help but also think that the colors and the design really hit with a lot of people.\n\nFor better or worse, I think that I remain a \"pro\" user. I was at a few concerts and a wedding recently, and I did regret not having the best cameras at a few of those, and while I am traveling with my Neo and using it as my \"couch computer\", every time I use my MacBook Pro, I go, \"hot damn, that's amazing.\"\n\nI still love the Neo, though. It's got…something…",
  "title": "Our computers are just too good",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-19T23:21:43.804Z"
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