Apple verbaasde vriendin en vijand afgelopen week met de helemaal nieuwe MacBook Neo. Waarmee Apple laat zien dat voor een relatief erg lage prijs het wél mogelijk is om een goede laptop te maken, maar die waarschijnlijk mede ook de reden was voor de prijsverhoging bij de MacBook Air.

Dat de MacBook Neo de handen van reviewers op elkaar zou gaan krijgen lag voor hand, hieronder vind je de bevestiging daarvan.






• The Verge:

The Neo takes its place as Apple's cheapest laptop, with a starting price of $599 and enough power to handle everyday tasks and last all day on a charge.

It's designed to entice students and first-time laptop buyers into Apple's world. It will.

• Ars Technica:

8GB of RAM is a bummer, but this $599 laptop cuts most of the right corners.

I suspect the MacBook Neo will become a common coffee shop companion.

• Tom's Guide:

The MacBook Neo redefines the value laptop at $599. You get a premium aluminum design, bright display and solid A18 Pro performance, plus stellar battery life.

But overall no other laptop comes close to the Neo in terms of bang for your buck.

• Bloomberg:

The $599 MacBook Neo proves that it's possible to make a laptop that stays true to Apple's reputation for craftsmanship, performance and reliability — even at roughly half the price of the popular MacBook Air.

By reaching that price point, the company is opening up macOS to a completely new market of first-time buyers.

• Macworld:

The MacBook Neo is, in every sense, a MacBook.

It might cost a fraction of what Apple charges for the MacBook Pro, but it's not a letdown; it's a delight.

• Stuff:

The MacBook Neo's compromises just aren't issues for the vast majority of users and as such what is on offer here is an absolutely bargainous no-brainer.

The look and feel is probably the biggest triumph – it has the same aluminium finish that you'd expect from a MacBook Air.

• Wired:

For the most part, Apple cut corners in the right places and made a MacBook its intended buyers will adore.

Outside of a couple of missteps, the MacBook Neo is a true budget laptop, done the right way.

• CNet:

Premium MacBook look and feel at much lower cost.

A18 Pro chip is powerful enough to provide fulfilling macOS experience.

Ik ben erg benieuwd !
Zou hem vandaag binnen krijgen.
Maar ja helaas, upc kan hem niet leveren op de afleverpunt.
Heb gezeur dus....

Nou ja morgen weer moeite doen om hem geleverd te krijgen...
Beide partijen zullen wel naar elkaar wijzen waarschijnlijk.

Deze ook nog:

En fotograaf Tyler Stalman laat zien dat 4K editing ook aardig gaat op de Neo.

https://duckdb.org/2026/03/11/big-data-on-the-cheapest-macbook

Should You Buy One?

Here's the thing: if you are running Big Data workloads on your laptop every day, you probably shouldn't get the MacBook Neo.

Yes, DuckDB runs on it, and can handle a lot of data by leveraging out-of-core processing. But the MacBook Neo's disk I/O is lackluster compared to the Air and Pro models (about 1.5 GB/s compared to 3–6 GB/s), and the 8 GB memory will be limiting in the long run.

If you need to process Big Data on the move and can pay up a bit, the other MacBook models will serve your needs better and there are also good options for Linux and Windows.

All that said, if you run DuckDB in the cloud and primarily use your laptop as a client, this is a great device. And you can rest assured that if you occasionally need to crunch some data locally, DuckDB on the MacBook Neo will be up to the challenge.

Klinkt ook niet echt als de doelgroep.

Ik ben erg benieuwd !
Zou hem vandaag binnen krijgen...

Vrijdag de 13e hier.

Als dat maar goed gaat. 

En fotograaf Tyler Stalman laat zien dat 4K editing ook aardig gaat op de Neo...

En 60 apps tegelijk openen. 

Vrijdag de 13e hier. Als dat maar goed gaat. 

Mijn geboortedag. Gaat al járen prima .

Haha... gelukkig. Mijn ex is ook jarig vandaag.

Oké, dat is een slechter voorbeeld. 

Slashdot
Apple MacBook Neo beats every single x86 pc CPU for single core performance

toe maar...

@Tarmac: en deze zin uit jouw link is wel erg opmerkelijk:

The A18 Pro is also slightly faster than Apple's own M3 generation in this scenario.