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MacBook Neo: The $599 Mac That Changes Everything (and What It Can’t Do)

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Disclaimer: I haven’t been paid by Apple or anyone else to write this. A laptop chip just posted a Geekbench 6 single-core score of 3,461 while drawing about 6.6 watts. For context, the LED bulb in your bathroom probably draws more power than that. The chip is Apple’s A18 Pro – the same one from the iPhone 16 Pro – and it just beat every M1 MacBook Air ever made for single core tasks. In a $599 laptop. 🤯 $599.

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MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

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Preface: I’m not really a Mac guy. But I have deep respect for what Apple has done with their silicon, and I’ve been following their CPU journey since the Motorola 68k days through PowerPC, the Intel transition, and now their in-house Apple Silicon. What they’ve accomplished in the last five years is genuinely remarkable. Apple is one of the few original tech companies that has survived and thrived over the decades while still staying in the consumer tech space. As

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