MacBook Neo 2 Could Feature Touchscreen

Apple's second-generation MacBook Neo volition motorboat successful 2027 and could diagnostic a touchscreen, according to expert Ming-Chi Kuo.


Apple this week announced the ‌MacBook Neo‌, an all-new entry-level Apple laptop that starts astatine $599, with acquisition pricing astatine $499. The ‌‌MacBook Neo‌‌ is designed to vie with lower-cost Windows laptops and Chromebooks, portion expanding the Mac lineup with a substantially much affordable option.

Unlike each different Apple silicon Mac, the ‌‌MacBook Neo‌‌ is powered by the A18 Pro spot primitively developed for the iPhone 16 Pro. The instrumentality features a colorful rounded design, a 13-inch Liquid Retina show with azygous iPad-style bezels alternatively than a notch, a color-matched Magic Keyboard, a mechanical trackpad, 2 USB-C ports, 8GB of memory, a headphone jack, a 1080p camera, dual mics, dual speakers with Spatial Audio, and a 16-hour artillery life.

In a report shared past year, Apple expert ‌Ming-Chi Kuo‌ correctly said that the ‌MacBook Neo‌ would participate wide accumulation successful the 4th fourth of 2025, but would not diagnostic a touchscreen. In the aforesaid report, helium revealed immoderate insights into the second-generation mentation of the device.

Crucially, Kuo said that the second-generation ‌MacBook Neo‌ whitethorn diagnostic a touchscreen. Apple's first touchscreen Mac is expected to motorboat aboriginal this twelvemonth successful the signifier of a new, high-end MacBook Pro with an OLED show and a caller design.

The instrumentality is specifically said to incorporated a interaction sheet that uses on-cell interaction technology. On-cell interaction exertion integrates the interaction sensors straight into the show panel's apical furniture (the "cell") alternatively than requiring a separate, dedicated interaction layer, to trim thickness.

Following the motorboat of this instrumentality and the adoption of interaction enactment successful macOS 27, it would marque consciousness for different MacBooks with the diagnostic to follow. Many different laptops from HP, Lenovo, Acer, and ASUS that present rival the ‌MacBook Neo‌ already diagnostic touchscreens.

As of September 2025, specifications for the second-generation ‌MacBook Neo‌ were inactive nether discussion, according to Kuo. A faster spot specified arsenic the A19 Pro is highly likely.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman contiguous suggested that Apple whitethorn grow "Neo" branding to different low-cost devices specified arsenic the Apple Watch SE, making it the "Apple Watch Neo."
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