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Tony Polanco

I played 5 games on the MacBook Neo — here's my report card

MacBook Neo on a desk.

The $599 MacBook Neo was designed for lighter workloads, but that doesn’t mean you can’t play games on it. Sure, you’ll get better performance on one of the best gaming laptops or the M5-powered 15-inch MacBook Air. But if you want to play select titles on Apple’s most affordable MacBook, you aren’t just limited to mobile games.

I recently posted about spending 48 hours with the MacBook Neo and found it surprisingly capable of handling everyday tasks like web surfing and streaming. But as a gamer, I had to see where the A18 Pro chip would actually redline. To that end, I decided to push this machine to its limits, testing a range of titles from Apple Arcade, the App Store and Steam.

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