In this vlog I put the MacBook Neo (2026, A18 Pro) through a real uni-student day and basically tried to make it suffer in the most normal way possible: breakfast + The Office, ChemEng midterm prep, classes, library lock-in, and then back home for more studying (plus a 3D print). The twist is I ran it like a “desktop” and a laptop—docked to an external monitor in the morning, then unplugged and taken to campus—while purposely not charging it all day just to see if it could actually survive. Battery-wise, it did. I started at 100% at 9:43 a.m. and hit 10% at 8:29 p.m., which is almost 12 hours of in-and-out student workload with Chrome tabs (like… a normal amount: 8–9), OneNote/Word/Notes, and Spotify. The big asterisk is 8GB RAM: Activity Monitor was living in yellow, and Chrome was the main culprit with swap memory showing up a lot. Performance still felt fine for typical student stuff, and it never got outright hot—just a little warm at times. At the end I also edited this video on the Neo in Final Cut Pro. It was surprisingly smooth and comparable to my M1 MacBook Air, but I did run into storage/RAM weirdness (Final Cut chewing swap and warnings) until I cleared space (goodbye Cyberpunk).