While the MacBook Neo achieves a breakthrough $599 starting price, that of course comes with some compromises, and one of them is slower SSD speeds. The Verge today showed the MacBook Neo had up to 8× slower sustained SSD read and write speeds in a benchmark test compared to the new MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips.

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Everything you need to know to preorder a MacBook Neo, Apple's new colorful, modestly priced (and modestly powered) laptop.

This will be a lot of people’s first Mac, and they’ll be very happy. A hands-on review of the MacBook Neo leaves us highly impressed.

MacBook Neo proves that Microsoft had the right idea, but the wrong execution