Apple on MacBook Neo Design: 'We're Certainly Not Making Any Compromises'

While the MacBook Neo starts astatine conscionable $599, oregon an adjacent little $499 for assemblage students, Apple has insisted that it did not marque immoderate plan compromises.


"It's undeniably a MacBook, we're surely not making immoderate compromises connected the plan and that's truly important," said Apple's vice president of concern plan Molly Anderson, successful an interrogation with architecture and plan work Dezeen.

Anderson added that "it was important" for the MacBook Neo "to beryllium quintessentially a MacBook."

Chiefly, the MacBook Neo is made from aluminum, not plastic.

"It wasn't conscionable a redesign, it was starting from the beginning, and we're not utilizing cheaper materials, it's unthinkable aluminium," she said.

Available successful amusive colors similar Blush and Citrus, the MacBook Neo is meant to beryllium distinguished from the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, according to Anderson.

"It was important to marque it consciousness portion of the family, but with its ain personality," she said.

Even though the MacBook Neo is designed with premium materials, Apple did person to marque compromises successful different areas. For example, the MacBook Neo has lone 8GB of RAM, and a Touch ID fastener is constricted to the $699 model. Plus, determination is nary MagSafe, 1 of the USB-C ports is constricted to USB 2 speeds of conscionable 480 MB/s, and the keys are not backlit.

Despite its limitations, the MacBook Neo volition apt beryllium a deed with students and customers who request a Mac chiefly for mundane tasks, similar web browsing and papers editing. Pre-orders began connected March 4, up of a March 11 launch.
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