From PC Mag: Apple's big week of March announcements has been heavily MacBook-focused, and it's finishing with the $599 MacBook Neo, a new lower-cost alternative to the MacBook Air with M5.
Apple has made this possible by using a mobile chipset to power the laptop, the A18 Pro processor produced by the brand itself, paired with 8GB of RAM. There's no option for higher specs here, so you're limited to this amount of power.
The A18 Pro first debuted on the iPhone 16 Pro, but was later usurped by the A19 Pro in the iPhone 17 Pro series. It may not be the latest Apple mobile chipset, but it delivers impressive overall performance.
"It’s up to 50% faster for everyday tasks like web browsing, and up to 3x faster when running on-device AI workloads like applying advanced effects to photos, compared to the bestselling PC with the latest shipping Intel Core Ultra 5," Apple says.
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