One Month With the MacBook Neo and Feeling the Limits

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.  

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But every so often, there are these annoying lags when I’m jumping between Safari browser tabs. I notice it especially

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