Apple announces MacBook Neo, its most affordable laptop ever

Apple's wrapping up its week of hardware launches with its most affordable laptop it's ever released. To answer your question, Brian, the MacBook Neo is about half the starting price of the current MacBook Air at 599. It's also a clear test of how efficient Apple's chip strategy has become.Instead of using the M series processors found in the rest of the Mac lineup, Apple is using an iPhone class A series chip here. And that lets the company cut the price much more aggressively while still running full Mac ...