{"id":245888,"date":"2026-05-14T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/macbook-neo-2-month-review-almost-a-macbook-pro-beater\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:20:08","slug":"macbook-neo-2-month-review-almost-a-macbook-pro-beater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/macbook-neo-2-month-review-almost-a-macbook-pro-beater\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Neo 2-month review: Almost a MacBook Pro beater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/05\/14\/macbook-neo-review-two-months-later-almost-a-macbook-pro-beater\">MacBook Neo 2-month review: Almost a MacBook Pro beater<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/05\/14\/macbook-neo-review-two-months-later-almost-a-macbook-pro-beater\">https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/05\/14\/macbook-neo-review-two-months-later-almost-a-macbook-pro-beater<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-14 09:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"appleinsider.com\">appleinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-lede\">The MacBook Neo is not only the Apple laptop that the majority should buy, but it&#8217;s also almost good enough to recommend to some MacBook Pro buyers as well.\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using a $599 Blush (read, pink) MacBook Neo for a few weeks now, and I&#8217;m in love. It&#8217;s a wonderful little laptop whose iPhone-powering chip belies its capabilities.\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to cut to the chase right out of the gate. Any worries about the performance of the Neo&#8217;s A18 Pro chip were allayed within five minutes of unboxing the thing.\n<\/p>\n<p>Couple that performance with an eminently portable design and some gorgeous colors, and Apple clearly has a winner. The MacBook Neo is flying off shelves at a rate Apple can&#8217;t keep up with.\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to see why, too. My normal machine is an M4 Pro 16-inch MacBook Pro, and the MacBook Neo has had me regularly questioning whether I should switch.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, I can&#8217;t for reasons that we&#8217;ll get into. But I really wish I could. So much so that I&#8217;m left wondering whether I need another laptop for those times my MacBook aircraft carrier is just too big.\n<\/p>\n<p>I probably do. Right?\n<\/p>\n<h2 data-anchor=\"macbook-neo-review-the-little-laptop-that-could\" id=\"macbook-neo-review-the-little-laptop-that-could\">MacBook Neo review: The little laptop that could<\/h2>\n<p>The MacBook Neo has a lot going for it, but it all starts with the form factor. With a 13-inch display, the MacBook Neo is small by many modern-day laptop standards. And that&#8217;s a good thing.\n<\/p>\n<p>Built like a tank, the MacBook Neo has a solid, quality feel to it. That&#8217;s thanks to the use of Apple&#8217;s familiar aluminum construction. Most other laptops at this price point use flimsy plastic.\n<\/p>\n<p>That feel is key to the MacBook Neo&#8217;s charm, too. Pick it up, and it feels like a machine that costs twice its price because it&#8217;s just like a MacBook Air or Pro.\n<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned it a moment ago, but it bears repeating. The MacBook Neo also feels incredibly solid in a way budget laptops never do.\n<\/p>\n<p>But a budget laptop, the MacBook Neo is. And if it isn&#8217;t felt in the fit and finish, it&#8217;s definitely felt in the connectivity options.\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-caption\">MacBook Neo review: Blush on the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/05\/14\/macbook-neo-review-two-months-later-almost-a-macbook-pro-beater\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacBook Neo 2-month review: Almost a MacBook Pro beater https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/05\/14\/macbook-neo-review-two-months-later-almost-a-macbook-pro-beater Publish Date: 2026-05-14 09:15:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/photos5.appleinsider.com\/gallery\/67586-142451-IMG_0968-xl.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[50,51],"class_list":["post-245888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macintosh","tag-macbook-air","tag-macbook-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245890,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245888\/revisions\/245890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}