I pick the best laptops from the first half of the year... and it's no longer the Neo in the top spot.

Apple announced a $599 “MacBook Neo” marketed as delivering the signature MacBook experience at an accessible price on Wednesday, just one day after unveiling the next generation of MacBook Air and ...

The MacBook Neo is Apple’s most affordable laptop ever and its clearest attempt yet to compete with Chromebooks and entry-level Windows laptops. Unlike the MacBook Air and Pro, the Neo runs on an ...

From the new MacBook Pro laptop and iPhone 17e to new Apple M5 chips, here’s the eight coolest Apple launched unveiled this week. Apple launched a slew of new laptops, chips and iPhones this week as ...

New, higher prices take some of the shine off the MacBook Neo, but Apple's other MacBooks are costlier now, too. Let's look at which of Apple's least-expensive MacBooks makes more sense for what you ...

With the MacBook Neo, Apple just made budget laptops exciting again. Dell’s answer, the latest XPS 13, may be even more ambitious. I've used both. Here's who wins.

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After a week of product announcements—starting with the iPhone 17e, a refreshed iPad Air, and more powerful MacBook Pro models—Apple has unveiled a new category in its laptop lineup for the first time ...

It seems Apple is preparing to debut a low-cost Mac laptop in the first half of 2026. According to Bloomberg, such a system is in early production at the company's overseas suppliers and Apple is ...

AI giant Nvidia has unveiled a powerful new “superchip” for personal computing in a challenge to laptops from rivals Intel and Apple. At an event in Taipei, Jensen Huang, the company’s chief executive ...

With the MacBook Neo, Apple just made budget laptops exciting again. Dell’s answer, the latest XPS 13, may be even more ambitious. I've used both. Here's who wins. I’ve been a consumer PC expert at ...