Once upon a time, the MacBook Air was the cheapest way to get yourself an Apple laptop. Then the MacBook Neo came along and changed all that. It’s much cheaper than even the entry-level 13-inch Air, while being about the same size and weight (though the Air is still thinner) and produces a level of performance from a CPU formerly seen in the iPhone 16 Pro that, while not comparable to anything running Apple’s latest M5 chip, is perfectly capable of carrying out many common photo-editing, and even video-editing, tasks. The MacBook Neo is very definitely the bottom rung on the MacBook ladder, and doesn’t get some of the advanced features you’ll see on those further up, but for its price it offers excellent build quality, the bulletproof macOS operating system, and just enough battery life to keep going all day. It’s never going to be on the list of the best laptops for video editing, but if you won’t use all that extra computing power, the Neo might be just the laptop you need.
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