{"id":520072,"date":"2026-03-07T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520072\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:12:11","slug":"apple-on-macbook-neo-design-were-certainly-not-making-any-compromises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520072\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple on MacBook Neo Design: ‘We’re Certainly Not Making Any Compromises’"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the MacBook Neo<\/a> starts at just $599, or an even lower $499 for college students, Apple has insisted that it did not make any design compromises.<\/p>\n

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“It’s undeniably a MacBook, we’re certainly not making any compromises on the design and that’s really important,” said Apple’s vice president of industrial design Molly Anderson, in an interview with architecture and design publication Dezeen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anderson added that “it was important” for the MacBook Neo “to be quintessentially a MacBook.”<\/p>\n

Chiefly, the MacBook Neo is made from aluminum, not plastic.<\/p>\n

“It wasn’t just a redesign, it was starting from the beginning, and we’re not using cheaper materials, it’s incredible aluminium,” she said.<\/p>\n

Available in fun colors like Blush and Citrus, the MacBook Neo is meant to be distinguished from the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, according to Anderson. <\/p>\n

“It was important to make it feel part of the family, but with its own personality,” she said.<\/p>\n

Even though the MacBook Neo is designed with premium materials, Apple did have to make compromises in other areas<\/a>. For example, the MacBook Neo has only 8GB of RAM, and a Touch ID button is limited to the $699 model. Plus, there is no MagSafe, one of the USB-C ports is limited to USB 2 speeds of just 480 MB\/s, and the keys are not backlit.<\/p>\n

Despite its limitations, the MacBook Neo will likely be a hit with students and customers who need a Mac mainly for everyday tasks, like web browsing and document editing. Pre-orders began on March 4, ahead of a March 11 launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the MacBook Neo starts at just $599, or an even lower $499 for college students, Apple has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,203776,61],"class_list":["post-520072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-macbook-neo","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}