Apple’s $599 Experiment is a Beast: MacBook Neo Benchmarks Crush the M1 Air

Apple MacBook Neo posts Geekbench 3,461 single-core and 8,668 multi-core; $599 pricing targets budget laptops and Chromebooks.

MacBook Neo vs MacBook Air M1: Which budget Apple laptop should you buy?

The $599 MacBook Neo is Apple's most affordable laptop ever, but is it a better buy over the legendary MacBook Air M1? Here’s everything you need to know.

Reboot: Downgrades, gaming, and opera house doodles

In this week's "Reboot" column, Apple's MacBook Neo is an impressive downgrade, the gaming push continues, and scribling on the Sydney Opera House.

Apple’s budget MacBook Neo is already outrunning the M1 MacBook Air in early tests

Early MacBook Neo benchmarks show Apple’s cheapest laptop keeping pace with the M1 MacBook Air in several tests. The post Apple’s budget MacBook Neo is already outrunning the M1 MacBook Air in early ...

First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In: Here's How It Compares to the M1 MacBook Air

Benchmarks for the new MacBook Neo surfaced today, and unsurprisingly, CPU performance is almost identical to the iPhone 16 Pro. The MacBook Neo uses the same 6-core A18 Pro chip that was first ...
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Developers Demonstrate AAA Windows Gaming on M1 and M2 Macs Using Linux

Yesterday, developer Alyssa Rosenzweig gave a talk at the XDC conference in Montréal, Canada about gaming on Asahi Linux installed on M1 and M2 Apple silicon-based Macs. According to GamingOnLinux: ...