MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

Re:MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and t... by ako on Thursday May 14, 2026 @05:35AM (#48133067)

Same with the iPad Air m1, handles everything you throw at it, does video editing, office, etc. Connected to an external display and keyboard feels like a full laptop, on the couch is the best consumption device. And with Claude it can handle your coding sessions.

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Re:MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and t... by mghfreud on Thursday May 14, 2026 @05:53AM (#48133187)

How do you use iPad for coding?

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Re:MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and t... by robrain on Thursday May 14, 2026 @07:31AM (#48133949)

There are terminal/ssh apps (a-shell, blink [shonky business model, sadly] etc) for remote coding, at least one git client (Working Copy), plenty of text editors.

Remote makes it way more useful, but bashing out well-formatted code on the road is trivial in Textastic, for instance.

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Re:MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and t... by PaulHoule on Thursday May 14, 2026 @09:43AM (#48135281)

For years my favorite hackathon kit has been a tablet + cheap bluetooth mouse + cheap bluetooth keyboard. It could be an iPad or an Amazon Fire tablet so long as it can run an RDP client and I can log into my home computer or a big cloud machine.

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