“I do not need a Macbook Neo.”

I chant the mantra under my breath. The desire abates, slightly.

I chant it again.

“I do not need a Macbook Neo.”

Maybe it’s stopped working.

I’ll channel the energy elsewhere, yeah, that’s the ticket.

Four different colours, and I couldn’t choose one.

Everyone will be buying the citrus colour, so maybe that’s not a good choice? Don’t want a computer that looks like everyone else’s. Then again, yellow is my lucky colour this year, according to the Chinese horoscope reading posted in Marine Parade Central during Chinese New Year. I don’t belive in astrology of any sort. But it can’t hurt. Citrus isn’t a pure yellow, either: it reads as a greenish-yellow to my eyes.

They call the dark blue one “indigo”. I’m a bit over dark-coloured computers. My work one is black. A Lenovo. A good computer, but I’d like a different colour for at home.

There’s a pink one. They call it “blush”. The colour doesn’t appeal to me. It’s not unattractive, or ugly or anything like that. It’s simply not for me. I’d rather something else.

My favourite is the silver. Would look exactly like my existing M1 Macbook Air - which still works, so I don’t need a Macbook Neo. Completely violates my idea that I don’t want my computer to look like everyone else’s, too.

And I don’t need a Macbook Neo, since my Macbook Air is in fine working condition. It doesn’t ever leave the house, though. So I could use a Macbook Neo as my secondary computer. My travelling companion.

Which is silly, since I don’t travel. I go to school (where I use my work computer) and I come home. In between, I have my phone for most things. Oh, and a yellow iPad.

(Hey, I already have a lucky yellow thing!)

And if I got one, I’d have to transfer all my stuff. That would suck. Why I don’t simply keep all my stuff on an external drive instead of on an actual computer I don’t know.

I keep meaning to set up a NAS - and then I could use my Macbook Neo like a terminal and pull stuff down from my own private cloud as needed. Which doesn’t make sense, because I don’t have many things that aren’t documents of one kind or the other.

But yeah, that all seems like too much work, epecially when the system I have now works well. Not even well enough - it actually works well. I have modest needs.

For which a Macbook Neo would be perfect!

“I do not need a Macbook Neo.”

I chant the mantra again.

I go through this entire train of thought every day, back and forth, propelled by “I want a Macbook Neo” and then dashing myself against the rocks of “I don’t need a Macbook Neo”.

I know sense will win out. I’m too rational to simply get a new computer on a whim.

But I gotta say - if my five-year-old M1 Macbook Air even so much as stutters …