Apple’s MacBook Neo is exactly the laptop many budget-conscious people have been looking for. It’s priced under $500 for students ($599 for everyone else), and has decent enough specs to be a great starter laptop for most users. To make it a ‘budget laptop,’ though, a few corners had to be cut. As a result, the MacBook Neo is lacking a few features that you might have come to expect from a MacBook. Here are the biggest trade-offs Apple is making to hit the Neo’s lower price point.
No Touch ID in the base model
The MacBook Neo’s base model doesn’t have a Touch ID sensor, which means you’ll have to type out your passwords every time you need to enter them. Some people might prefer this over using a fingerprint sensor, but I’d rather pay the extra $100 for it. This variant also comes with 512GB of storage, while the base
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