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Upgraded from an iPad Air 13" and a Mac mini (M2) as my usage centered more and more around photo editing and agentic coding. The Mac mini feels too static and the iPad too limiting.

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I got a 2025 MacBook Air with slightly bumped specs over the base model. Nadine got one last year, so I know what I was getting into, and I have been using Airs on and off during my time at Delivery Hero. I was already moving between Photos and Photomator for importing and post-editing pictures. This worked okay on the iPad, but for blog post writing and generating draft previews with Hugo I needed macOS. The MacBook Air solves this nicely.

The Mac mini has been migrated to a home server and I realized the shipped app in macOS for Screen Sharing is superior to Apple’s 89€ paid App Store version! I can manage the Mac mini remotely via the Screen Sharing app.

The iPad Air 13" I am going to sell. I had high hopes when they first announced the larger Air with Smart Keyboard support. Unfortunately Apple never realized the full potential of iPadOS. An easy-to-access virtualization layer that allows you to run OCI-compatible containers would have been sufficient for most development use cases.

I am establishing habits with the MacBook Air:

• I ditched 1Password for Apple Passwords, the migration was straightforward.
• I dropped Google Chrome in favor of Safari.
• I skipped installing Docker and use OrbStack.
• I added Claude as my AI assistant, triggered by double-pressing the option key.