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

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Preface: I’m not really a Mac guy. But I have deep respect for what Apple has done with their silicon, and I’ve been following their CPU journey since the Motorola 68k days through PowerPC, the Intel transition, and now their in-house Apple Silicon. What they’ve accomplished in the last five years is genuinely remarkable. Apple is one of the few original tech companies that has survived and thrived over the decades while still staying in the consumer tech space. As

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Best Computer for Claude Code in 2026

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Originally published February 6, 2026. Updated April 14, 2026. TL;DR: If you are looking for the best computer for Claude Code in 2026, my short answer is the MacBook Air M5 (currently $150 off on Amazon). Most people do not need a monster workstation. The AI heavy lifting runs in the cloud. Your machine handles file I/O, builds, test suites, and your dev environment. Cheapest Mac that works: the $599 MacBook Neo. Windows: a ThinkPad with 32GB of RAM. Desktop

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How to Use GPT-5.5 Today at the CLI (Via Your Existing Codex Subscription)

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TL;DR: You can use GPT-5.5 today from your terminal by running Simon Willison’s llm-openai-via-codex plugin on top of your existing ChatGPT/Codex login. No new API key, no separate API bill. 💪 OpenAI hasn’t shipped GPT-5.5 to the public API yet (as of 2026-04-24 midday), so this is a pretty sweet clean shell-side path until they do. 🚀 Thank you Simon! I set this up on my dev test box and it took about two minutes end to end. I wrote

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How to Remove McAfee WebAdvisor and That Popup on Windows

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TL;DR: To remove McAfee WebAdvisor, uninstall “WebAdvisor by McAfee” from Settings > Apps & features. You have to SCROLL to find it b/c the “Find a setting” search does not filter the app list. Click through the “we’ll miss you” retention popup and you’re done. I just use Windows Defender as it is much less obtrusive and generally very capable. I booted my Lenovo Legion 7 (16ACHG6) for the first time in a while and was greeted with this not

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How to Fix Codex Sandbox Errors on Ubuntu 24.04

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Terminal before and after: bwrap RTM_NEWADDR error before the AppArmor profile, ok after

TL;DR: Codex sandbox errors on Ubuntu 24.04 almost always trace back to one thing on freshly installed boxes: AppArmor blocking bwrap. A five-line /etc/apparmor.d/bwrap profile fixed it on my system. If you’re hitting the same wall, paste your error into Claude Code and let it walk you through. 💪 The Symptom: Codex Sandbox Hangs on Ubuntu 24.04 My Codex setup on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 VM was unusable. Every codex exec call burned 35K to 54K tokens over 2 or

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Dell WD19TBS Mouse Lag: Firmware Update Fixed Every Device

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TL;DR: If you’re chasing WD19TBS mouse lag, try the Dell Dock Firmware Update Utility before anything else. My dock was stuttering on every device I plugged in: a Dell laptop, a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, a MacBook,  and my Lenovo Legion 7. Running the utility fixed it. The updater showed only one component actually changed: the dock’s embedded controller, 01.01.00.14 to 01.01.00.15. The mouse cursor stopped stuttering! 💪 The Issues Any device I connected to my Dell thunderbolt dock would

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Claude Opus 4.6 vs 4.7 Max: Which is better? Graded on Real World Planning

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Letter-grade scorecard comparing Claude Opus 4.6 Max and Claude Opus 4.7 Max on a WordPress modernization planning task, with Opus 4.7 winning overall A- to C

TL;DR: This is one real WordPress website maintenance task, run once against each model. On that task, Claude Opus 4.7 produced the stronger first-pass plan because it started from a more accurate baseline. Opus 4.6 was faster and caught one thing 4.7 missed, but it got the active theme wrong and claimed an impossible PHP version. I would not execute either plan as written. Grades below. Note: Opus 4.7 is getting a rough reception on Reddit and around the web

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Switch to Claude Code Opus 4.7 [instructions]

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Opus 4.7 launched on April 16, 2026. Here’s the fast path to switch Claude Code over, including the gotcha I hit in the VS Code extension. Quick upgrade (terminal) Three commands, in order: claude update claude –version claude –model claude-opus-4-7 If that last command starts a session confirming claude-opus-4-7, you’re done. If not, keep reading. Step 1: Update Claude Code Most people run Claude Code in a terminal. One command does it: claude update Anthropic lists v2.1.111+ as the minimum

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Claude Code Rate exceeded.

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If you are getting “Rate exceeded.” when trying to re-authorize your Claude Code instance, it is probably because Anthropic’s servers are having API/login issues: Specifically, if you haven’t been heavily using Claude and you get kicked out of Claude Code with reauthorization required… for me every time it has been server issues  on anthropic side and the eventually resolve. Still, that is small consolation if you are trying to finish up a project or get work done! Claude has been

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Chuwi MiniBook X vs MacBook Neo: The $399 Laptop That Refuses to Throttle

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Disclosure: I purchased this Chuwi MiniBook X with my own money (~$399 from Amazon). See also: my MacBook Neo review and full Neo benchmark analysis. The $399 Laptop That Refuses to Throttle In my MacBook Neo review, I wrote that after 60 seconds of sustained CPU load, the Neo “drops to phone-class performance that a $400 Windows laptop can match.” A reader could reasonably wonder: does a $400 Windows laptop actually deliver? I had a Chuwi MiniBook X on hand

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