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Technology
Jason England

I’m a MacBook Pro loyalist, but how much work can I actually do on a cheap MacBook Neo? The answer shocked me (and saved me a lot of money)

MacBook Pro vs MacBook Neo.

My go-to daily driver has always been a MacBook Pro — picking it to partly fulfill my diverse workload of general productivity and prosumer work, and partly to satisfy my inner speeds and feeds demon. There’s just something about seeing big numbers that feels nice, y’know.

However, the MacBook Neo is here at a third of the cost, and while I’d love to be the guy who can continue to afford expensive laptops, I’ve got a home to pay for with my wife. So how much of my day-to-day could I actually do on a Neo vs the Pro?

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