The $599 MacBook Neo is Apple's cheapest laptop in years, and MKBHD argues it is the machine Apple was trying to build a decade ago but lacked the silicon to justify. The price point is real, not a stripped-down trap.
The review goes beyond the spec sheet. MKBHD examines whether the compromises at this price, display, ports, chassis, actually matter for the buyer this machine targets, and compares it directly against the M5 MacBook Pro to show where the gap is and where it isn't.
The 'reincarnated' framing is the reason to watch in full. It recontextualizes the Neo not as a budget product but as a delayed vision finally made possible by Apple's chip efficiency gains. That argument either holds or it doesn't, and the details are in the runtime.
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