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One Month With the MacBook Neo and Feeling the Limits

CNET·Bridget Carey Editor at Large·about 2 months ago
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I didn't need to do heavy 4K video editing or complex AI prompting to push the Neo to its limits. All it took for me to crash Apple's hot-selling budget MacBook was opening too many Safari tabs (about 64, give or take). I've been using the MacBook Neo as my main machine for a month, switching from my work-issued (and more powerful) MacBook Pro. The Neo is the first MacBook to rock an iPhone processor , the A18 Pro chip. It comes with some trade-offs, but my overall experience has been pretty impressive. It handles every program I need. It's lightweight with great battery life. And it's pink and cute to boot.   Watch this: One Month With MacBook Neo: Yes, I Feel the Limits 05:51 But every so often, there are these annoying lags when I'm jumping between Safari browser tabs. I notice it especially when several Google Workspace tools are open at the same time. And last week, I took it too far while researching. My habit of opening too many tabs choked up the laptop's meager 8 gigs of RAM.…

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