Apple has never made a MacBook this cheap before, so in this video I put the $600 MacBook Neo under a real-world microscope and compared it to other laptops around the same price—Windows options and even a Chromebook. I’m looking for the “catch,” because on paper this thing sounds almost too good: a 13-inch Liquid Retina display, funky color options (I’ve got the Citrus one), and build quality that genuinely feels like a regular MacBook. For the money, the screen is one of the best I’ve seen at this price, the speakers surprised me, and you still get that familiar Magic Keyboard experience. Then we get into what it’s like to actually use. It’s running an A18 Pro (yup, iPhone chip), and I tested my usual workload—tons of tabs, apps, messaging, and even some video editing. It’s not meant for power users, creators, or gamers, but it handled way more than I expected, with solid battery life too. The big issue is long-term: we’ve never really seen Apple do a laptop like this, so we don’t have years of data on how it’ll hold up. At $500–$600, though, the value is kind of wild if you just need an everyday machine.