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Look, I've been a Windows user for a long time, okay? And I'm not ashamed to

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admit Apple's looking pretty nice right now. The things they're doing, I'm kind

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of like, "Okay, friends." [laughter] I'm talking, of course, about the Apple

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MacBook Neo. It was leaked a little bit. People knew that the a MacBook was

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coming or likely to be coming uh with an iPhone chip in it. That is heavier than

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I expected. Wow. Maybe I just haven't held a new MacBook in in a while. But

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that's that's got heft to it. I think they put the whole iPhone in there.

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Anyway, Apple did it. They took the A18 Pro that launched with the iPhone 16

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Pros and they knocked a GPU core off.

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MacBook Neo and encased it in this these fun new

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colors. That's the best part. Look at this. Oh, okay. What is this? Citrus.

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Now, if you've been paying attention to the launch of the Neo at all, you

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understand that people are very excited about this laptop despite it having like

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a phone chip. That's not exciting. Except that the phone chip is a bit more

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powerful than the first Apple silicon chip that they put in the MacBook after

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dropping Intel by the wayside. We're not just talking about any phone chip. We're

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talking about Apple silicon, which has like transformed the industry and

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remains the standard for laptop processors. They're good. Not only are

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the chips good, this is a MacBook that you can get for $600, $500 if you're a

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student, US. It's crazy. Anyway, let's see what else is in that box. Designed

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by Apple in California. I certainly hope so.

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Trackpad. We're going to get to the trackpad. It's not haptic. Lock key. We

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did not get the version that has the Touch ID on the key, but we'll we'll get

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to that all later. In the box, interestingly, is a 20 watt charger,

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USBC to C cable as well. Now, some people have expressed concern about some

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of the specs of the MacBook Neo, including the fact that it has a 20 watt

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charger. It's quite low for a laptop. It's low for a phone these days. That's

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a 5ft cable, baby. Let's go. You know

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how I can tell? Don't ask. Aka 1.5 m. it

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apparently, you know, it takes about an hour or over an hour to to charge from 0

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to 100, but you can connect it to more powerful chargers and get like a little

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bit faster charging speed. The other thing to note here is that it's not Mag

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Safe. Every other MacBook for a while has come with MagSafe. Apple took it

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away and then they brought it back. This one doesn't get it cuz it's still a

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student. It has to earn MagSafe. But how annoying will it be to not have Mag

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Safe? Well, let's let's see. Let's take a look at the actual

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Now, I've heard people say it's got a one finger touch, one finger openable

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lid. Ooh, that's nice. This has really

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given me the same vibes I got when I got

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my first MacBook. It was a plastic Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook that I used for

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university and it was beloved by me.

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Man, that is a color. I mean, you probably can't really get the

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appreciation for it uh via the video here. Maybe on that one. Does that look

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colorful to you? Do you see the color in

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person? It's really catching the light in a way that like I don't think it's

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going to come across properly on the video. I usually do not care about

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colors at all. As you know, I'm a minimalist. Everything should be gray or

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black or white. But this is making me feel things. And that's really what's

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all what it's all about. We need tech that makes us feel things more. Oh, but

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before we really start playing with it, we got to take a look at the exterior

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here. And yes, they got that crazy color. We got a very, very smooth, nice

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finish on this. I mean, it's 600 bucks, 500 bucks with a discount. But I think

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the thing that's blowing everyone's minds is the fact that it's that price

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and like it feels and looks like an a a

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high-end Apple product. Like if they if you told me that Apple released a small,

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you know, 13-in MacBook Pro in fun colors and you handed this to me, I'd be

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like, "Oh, yeah, you I believe you. I'm also very gullible, but I believe you."

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Now, while it does have that nice kind of smooth aluminum enclosure that you

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would expect from a MacBook, there are some obvious design differences here.

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One being that the aforementioned Mag Safe is not there. Instead, we have two

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USBC ports. The one on the left here is USB 3. whatever kind of USB 3 gets you

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10 Gbits per second of of transfer speed. I think it's USB 3.2 Gen 2 X1.

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And the USBC port on the right here is USB 2 speeds. You're only getting 480

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megabytes per second from that, which is, you know, somewhat disappointing.

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However, use that thing for charging, for like, you know, mouse, keyboard,

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accessories, or whatever. And then this can be more for like dongles. Okay. At

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the very least though, they do have a headphone jack. So, we haven't uh we

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haven't come up with some silly excuse for uh removing the headphone jack on

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MacBooks yet. Next to that, we have what many might assume from far away is an uh

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SD card slot. It's not. Those are the speakers. These days, we're used to

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MacBook speakers being upward-f facing, but these are side facing. And there's

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another one on the other side along with no other ports on the sides or the

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front. We've got these grippy feet on the bottom that are they look way

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lighter on the top down than they look in person. And we've got eight torque

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screws on the bottom. So, you can remove it and uh you know, fiddle around in

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there. You're not going to be able to change much because you know this is a

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Apple silicon chip. The RAM is soldered.

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fiddling around with unofficial ways to replace the SSD. That's all at your own

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risk, though. You might screw something up. I don't know. I'm I'm not recommending you do it. I'm just saying

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people have done it. All right, let's open it up again and look at one of the

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many cool things about this laptop. This is a Magic Keyboard. It's the same sort

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of keyboard that you get on the other MacBooks. It feels good to type on. If

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you've ever felt if you've ever typed on a Magic Keyboard, it's kind of like the

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best laptop keyboard on the market. Someone's going to get at me in the

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comments, but like it's good. Okay, it's f it's more than fine. The one big

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downside with this keyboard is that there's no backlighting. It'll make

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people who use computers uh only in the dark sad. However, they are white keys

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as opposed to the black keys found on pretty much every other MacBook as far

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as I'm aware. So, I should say sorry, they're not like white. They're actually

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like a very subtle uh shade of the same

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color as the laptop. So, if you get the other colors, blush, indigo, and

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the touchpad. For like a decade, MacBooks have had touchpads that do not

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have like a mechanical clicky action to it. It's just got a little vibration in

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it that makes it feel like you're clicking. But I guess they could save a little bit of money by designing a whole

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new trackpad that has a mechanical click to it. It's like a clicky trackpad. You

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can see it kind of going down in all different corners. Just the fact that

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they're launching this this computer for $600. We'll get into this, but is it

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Apple being really good or is it just the industry just really sucking? Maybe

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a bit of both. I don't know. So, above that, we have one of the other areas

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that Apple may have kind of, you know, saved a little bit of money on in a

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reasonable way, perhaps. 13-in IPS

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display goes up to 500 nits, uh, 60 Hz

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with a 248x506

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resolution. It only has support for the sRGB color space and it also doesn't

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have true tone which it kind of changes the color temperature of the screen uh

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depending on your environment. I always thought that was kind of weird. Uh but

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other people like it, you know, regardless it's not here because it's

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$600. It's also worth pointing out here that the USB 3 port on the left or on

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the back does support DisplayPort output. You can power a monitor at 60 Hz

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I think up to was it 4K? Wow. Okay. but

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only one. You know, now that like we're logged in, we're in macOS, it's a

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little surreal to have a device that like looks this fun and I know is that

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inexpensive and you know, you're here. You're you're using an Apple product.

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The vibe is that Apple wants this to be like a lot of people's first Apple

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product so they can convince you to pay for a subscription for something,

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anything, cuz they're getting a lot of money from services these days. Okay,

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let's start using this thing right after this message from our sponsor Dbrand.

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and they sent over one of their new 1984 MacBook skins. Now, this one is color

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match for our Citrus device, but they've got eight different hues for pretty much

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every modern MacBook colorway. Now, if you're wondering, why would I put a

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citrus skin on my citrus MacBook Neo?

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Uh, but the answer is to get a classic Apple logo like this one. Look at the

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colors. It's kind of like if 1984 Apple

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made a 2026 MacBook. Plus, the logo is

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3D printed to really make it pop. You can feel it. There's texture. Put some

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texture in your life. These retrostyled 1984 skins are available for a ton of

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MacBooks, new and old. And if you want to see how it'll look on your MacBook

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So, yes, we are in macOS, but it's not a normal MacBook, okay? It's got a phone

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chip in it. Let's not forget that. Now, my first thought it was to load Premiere

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because I know that it's probably less optimized uh on this hardware than

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Apple's own firstparty apps. Um, and I have experience with it. So, we're going

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to see how it handles like 4K footage or whatever. But, obviously, at 600 bucks,

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they're not targeting this machine towards like hardcore creative video

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editors and like people that do that for work. However, I've I've seen a lot of

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people say that like, yeah, it'll, you

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know, it'll do browsing, it'll do word processing, it'll do light photo

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editing, it'll do whatever, like just fine, you know? But we're seeing claims

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that Apple's chips just are at the point now where you can push it a little bit

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farther and it's not going to like totally break down. It'll kind of slow

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down a little bit as you put throw more at it. Anyway, I'm going to just going

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to click around and see if I have any subjective complaints about, you know,

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slow down or anything. We're going to get to the Labs results in a minute. We

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downloaded Chrome in a few seconds there. This thing's got Wi-Fi 6E and

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Bluetooth 6. So, I've got a few tabs open in Safari. I downloaded Chrome. I

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got some tabs open in that. We're playing videos. LT Store. We got Amazon,

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apple.com. We got open I open a bunch of things. And so far, I'm not seeing any

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slowdown in terms of like quickly. I was I was doing it quick. You should have

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seen it. This is far from an objective benchmark, but I think that like I'm

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using this laptop. It feels like using a MacBook. So far, I haven't really

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encountered anything where I'm like, ooh, Apple really I've tried to emulate

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Chromebooks in a bit too much. It's not happened. I feel taken care of, which

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I've talked about a lot on this channel. I like that. Hello, slightly older Riley

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in a different sweater because we gave the MacBook Neo to the Labs team. They

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did some testing overnight. So, we got some battery numbers as well and they

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gave it back to us. Here's what we found. As other people have found in

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their testing, the A18 Pro in the MacBook Neo is kind of around the M1

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chip uh in a ballpark sense in Cinebench. Uh we got 12% better in

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single thread and 17% slower in

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multi-thread. The Neo is obviously behind the M4 and the M5 in uh Cinebench

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there, but uh it's actually impressively close in single thread. Uh multi-thread

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is where it really struggles just because it's got way less cores. Well,

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and for other reasons as well. Now, Labs put the laptops that we're testing here

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through a couple of browserbased benchmarks, Jetream and Motion Mark

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this. And in those tests, the Neo uh

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once again outperformed uh the M1 MacBook Air in Jetream 2.0 and is

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actually impressively close to the other ones as well. Uh in Motion Mark though,

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which is a little bit more intensive, uh it fell behind all three of its I don't

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want to say competitors because they're also Apple MacBooks, but you know, now

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while Labs was putting this thing through its paces, uh we were able to

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get some Fleer camera uh shots of the

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hot spots on there. So, if you're curious as to what spots on the laptop

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get hot, these are the ones. And uh 42° C was the absolute top temperature that

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they recorded, which Lab says is, you

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know, shy of the 50° mark where they start they say that's where things start

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getting like uncomfortably hot. So I I wouldn't expect you to burn your fingers

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on this thing or anything. I don't think it could burn you if you tried. It's pure of heart. Now to what is probably

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one of the more interesting uh benchmark numbers for this kind of device, battery

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discharge. With the time we had, we were able to test this against the MacBook

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Air M4 and the MacBook Air M5. Both known for having very good battery life.

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bit smaller battery, 36 1/2 W hours versus 53.8

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W hours, the Neo was able to last 6 hours 46 minutes 25 seconds, which was

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behind, you know, the over 8 hours that uh the other laptops were able to

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achieve. But that is streaming 1080p video off a Plex server uh constantly at

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200 nits brightness in low power [music] mode. Um so if you're not just watching

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video literally all day, you know, that's nearly 7 hours of use with

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Apple's excellent standby time, you're looking at easy uh full day of use for

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like a student IMO. Optimally, I'd love

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to get even more in-depth with numbers and testing. Uh but this is a short

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circuit. We actually are working on a full LTT review of this thing. So stay

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tuned to LTT. I guess that's kind of throwing ShortCircuit under the bus

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here. Sorry. So raw performance aside, what about some more kind of quality of

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life things? The speakers. Laptops

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have really good speakers. iMacs generally pretty good. You know, as

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someone who watched movies for a long time before I had a TV, we watched

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movies on a MacBook on an iMac. So, we're going to do our standard crab rave

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audio testing. They're coming out the side. It's weird to see a MacBook with

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speakers that little like like that dinky. I usually

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usually have like these big speaker grills.

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I've seen people complaining about these speakers. Like they're like, "Ah, they're not so good. They're not very

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good." Like, these are pretty good speakers for a laptop. Okay. I guess I'm

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just, you know, I've seen a lot of bad laptops in my life. I think the people

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that complain about the speakers are probably just like regular MacBook users

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and they're used to a MacBook Air and a MacBook Pro and they're like, "These are

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worse speakers." And it's like they might they they are right.

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But like because I heard that these speakers weren't as good as the other

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ones, I was expecting them to be bad. But these are not like I wouldn't call

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these bad. They're not like amazing, but

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like [music]

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there's like a little bit of mids. There's like a little bit of mids

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missing, but like there's still like a a healthy amount of bass and and highs. I

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also generally kind of like take a look at the the colors and stuff in this

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video, but like, you know, it looks uh I got no real complaints. It maybe looks a

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little bit kind of cooler. I'm not like

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kind of blown away in the in the way that I usually am when looking at like

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an iPad display or a MacBook display. It

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looks more normal. Big props to Apple for their, you know, retina thing where

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they basically put as much resolution in a certain size display as they think is

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like proper for the human eye to appreciate. It works. I don't know what

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to tell you. Webcam. So far, I got to say, using the trackpad has been totally

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fine, but that's also because I'm used to Windows trackpads more so than

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MacBook trackpads. So, like to me, this seems normal. Uh MacBook people may feel

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like, oh, it's a step down. just based off this, maybe this maybe the actual

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file will look better, but the preview is making me think that this is

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definitely a step down than the normal level of Apple quality than I that I

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would uh expect. Once again, $600

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MacBook, what are you going to do? It's pretty good. It's fine. You know, like

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for a student, this is this is what you this is all you get. Graduate and then

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talk to me. So, as for battery life, Apple put a 36 1/2Wh hour battery in

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here. Apple says that'll get you 11 hours of wireless web browsing and 16

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hours of video playback. I appreciate Apple giving the actual like wireless

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web browsing number, the estimate for the battery life there, because that's

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kind of what this is going to be primarily used for. Now, I've seen a lot

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of people say it's only got 8 gigs of RAM. You know, it's it's got 8 gigs of

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unified memory as part of that A18 Pro chip. that can punch a little bit above

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its weight class on an Apple device where they've so heavily optimized

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everything and you're using firstparty Apple apps. And the other thing to keep

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in mind here is that especially if you're coming from a Windows ecosystem,

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8 gigs of RAM is not enough. You're right, it's not. But this is not a

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Windows device. And I think that a lot of people are going to find out now that

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macOS is available at a at a lower price point. It's true. there's been the

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Refurb, you know, store and you've been able to get like discounted MacBook Airs

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for a while. And based on the impressions and reviews that we're seeing about this thing so far, there's

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probably a good contingent of people who are going to look at this thing and be

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like, "Yeah, this is really cool, but I do need a little bit more juice." And

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you're going to go for like a Refurb M4 MacBook Air for a few couple hundred

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bucks more or something. Or maybe you can find a M3 one used. Like regardless,

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this represents a cool new entry point

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into the macOS ecosystem where 8 GB can

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potentially act like more than 8 GB. As I said, this is the 256 gig version, the

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base model. There is one available upgrade up to 512 gigs of internal

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storage that will also get you the Touch ID power button, which is like an

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interesting thing for them to like link those two together. Apple's ways are

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mysterious. That upgrade costs $100 uh USD. Um, but it does not upgrade that 8

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gigs of RAM. I know a lot of you are stressed about the 8 gigs of RAM. Okay,

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you're thinking, "What? 8 gigs of RAM? How am I supposed to run my local LLMs

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and uh generate all of my content?"

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You're not supposed to. You're not supposed to do that. This thing reminds

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me of that plastic MacBook that I had

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back in 2006. I shouldn't date myself like that, I guess, but that's when I

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had it. and it had your garage band on it and me and my friends would fool

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around and make fun songs and like I love that Apple is still putting that

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stuff, you know, some of that stuff on here and taking their beautiful

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hardware, well optimized hardware and putting it out there for 600 bucks.

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Students can get it. They can learn to create things. Okay, we have to learn to

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create again and buy beautiful tools that have cool colors on them. I'm not

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saying that other companies can't make beautiful hardware. They can, but uh

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that's not the thing that's in front of me right now. It's the MacBook Neo. And

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that's basically all I have to say about it. So, thanks for watching Short

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Circuit. Uh subscribe, and if you're looking for something else to watch,

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check out our other video on the MacBook Air. If this isn't quite going to cut it

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for you, maybe that will. Okay, we're we're in our Apple glazing era. Go

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Apple.