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The Verge’s 2026 back-to-school shopping guide
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This is a consumer shopping guide with minimal relevance to building or operating software; the only platform-adjacent item is the MacBook Neo, which is explicitly noted as unsuitable for engineering workloads. The TI-84 Evo's shift to USB-C charging and a color screen reflects incremental hardware modernization in educational tools.
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The MacBook Neo, priced at $589 with an iPhone-grade CPU and 8GB of RAM, is positioned as a basic notetaking and essay-writing laptop and is explicitly not recommended for engineering students.
Texas Instruments released the TI-84 Evo graphing calculator, featuring a color screen and USB-C charging to replace disposable batteries.
The Anbernic RG Rotate is a $95 Android-based gaming handheld that allows installation of compatible emulators.
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