J.D. Hodges

MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/

The MacBook Neo is a genuinely impressive piece of engineering at an unprecedented Apple price point, strategically timed to exploit a market in crisis. The A18 Pro is not a compromise chip. It is the same core architecture as the M4, running at M3-to-M4 class performance for single-threaded work. Apple reused mature iPhone silicon at massive scale, eliminated incremental R&D cost, and shipped a product with healthy margins at $599.

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