{"id":534057,"date":"2026-03-13T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534057\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:46:10","slug":"engadget-podcast-apples-599-macbook-neo-is-astounding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534057\/","title":{"rendered":"Engadget Podcast: Apple&#8217;s $599 MacBook Neo is astounding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Somehow, Apple made a $599 laptop that&#8217;s actually a joy to use. In this episode, Devindra and Deputy Editor Nathan Ingraham chat about what makes the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/computing\/laptops\/macbook-neo-review-apple-puts-every-600-windows-pc-to-shame-130000878.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:MacBook Neo;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;MacBook Neo&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MacBook Neo<\/a> so great. And they also dive into the new M4 iPad Air, M5 MacBook Air and M5 Pro\/Max MacBook Pros. Also, Roberto Baldwin, SAE International&#8217;s Sustainability Editor, joins us to chat about the state of EVs today as gas prices explode.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe!Topic<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MacBook Neo review: Apple puts $600 Windows PCs to shame \u2013 1:47<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">iPad Air M4 remains Apple\u2019s best overall tablet \u2013 18:05<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE employee illegally took social security info on 500 million Americans to their new job \u2013 33:37<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Valve clarifies their outlook on the Steam Machine, it\u2019ll launch in 2026, still no word on price \u2013 36:08<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Grammerly hit with a class action lawsuit for using reporters\u2019 names in an editing \u2018expert\u2019 tool \u2013 40:29<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A new study claims every major AI chatbot will help users plan a hate attack or political assassination \u2013 44:03<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What to look for in a used EV with SAE International sustainability editor Roberto Baldwin \u2013 48:31<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Around Engadget \u2013 1:21:04<\/p>\n<p>Credits<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hosts: Devindra Hardawar and Nathan Ingraham<br \/>Guest: Roberto Baldwin<br \/>Producer: Ben Ellman<br \/>Music: Dale North and Terrence O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somehow, Apple made a $599 laptop that&#8217;s actually a joy to use. In this episode, Devindra and Deputy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1572,49,48,39408,203775,168951,209182,209181,61],"class_list":["post-534057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-macbook-air","tag-macbook-pros","tag-nathan-ingraham","tag-roberto-baldwin","tag-sae-international","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534057","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=534057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}