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MacBook Neo Pre-Orders at Best Buy Include Free $25 Gift Card

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Earlier today we began tracking the first pre-order offers on the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, and now the MacBook Neo has joined in at Best Buy. If you pre-order the new low-cost MacBook Neo at Best Buy, you'll get a free $25 Best Buy gift card after purchase.

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In order to get the deal, you need to pre-order any MacBook Neo model at Best Buy with a valid e-mail address. The e-gift card will be sent out after you receive the MacBook Neo, or after you pick it up in a Best Buy store.

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MacBook Neo at Best Buy

Apple announced the MacBook Neo today, and it's now the cheapest MacBook in the lineup starting at $599 and powered by the A18 Pro chip. Apple says it is up to 50% faster for everyday tasks than the bestselling PC with the latest shipping Intel Core Ultra 5, up to 3x faster for on-device AI workloads, and up to 2x faster for tasks like photo editing.

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Blackstick Avatar
Blackstick
3 hours ago at 11:10 am
The discounts have begun. By Black Friday these will be available for $449. Opens Apple to an entire market they never had before. It's like if BMW made a new vehicle for $25,000 in this decade.

Yes there was a Mac mini, but that's $600 without a keyboard/mouse/display and isn't mobile. This is the ultimate gift for someone who doesn't need Air/Pro level equipment.

This Mac has to beat the $500 POS Windows plastic trash sitting on a shelf next to it at Walmart or Costco or Target, not a $1100 MacBook Air or a $2200 MacBook Pro. And it will.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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WarmWinterHat
3 hours ago at 11:16 am

Yeah, and why nerf it with max 512GB?
Less SKUs for Apple.
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Tim Jobs the 2nd
36 minutes ago at 01:39 pm

So, I realize this is one simple anecdotal example, but the specs on this seem to be in the absolute sweet spot for a lot of day to day Macbook users that aren't coders, gamers, designers or videophiles. My (adult) kid is in the theatre business. She's constantly recording audition tapes, downloading and reading scripts, emailing, and browsing. And that's pretty much it. and you might ask...what about the audition tapes? Well, those are done entirely on her iPhone or iPad. She doesn't need a ton of storage because all of her files are in the cloud. She barely would even use it to browse through photos.

It actually comes at an absolutely perfect time for her, too. Her very old and underutilized MBPro screen crapped the bed, and it would cost more to fix that than it would to buy a new Neo. And, she can get it in pink.

And as for comparing it to PC specs...the last time she used a PC was in elementary school.
Sounds perfect for her and also the majority of the market. MacRumors users forget they are in the minority. Most Apple customers are not like us here. Hope she enjoys it!
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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BeatsByTim
3 hours ago at 11:32 am
$25 won't make up for this atrocity.


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BeatsByTim
2 hours ago at 12:37 pm

It isn't a rip off just because you don't understand the target market for it.
The target market is suckers
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lazyrighteye
2 hours ago at 12:42 pm

$25 won't make up for this atrocity.

All this says to me is just how serious they were about keeping cost as low as possible. Otherwise, they would have both been USB 3. Obviously.

The target audience for a MacBook Neo will not care in the least about these port differences. I may. You may. But we're not the target. So...
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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