MacBook Neo review: The perfect gateway Mac

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At a glance

Expert's Rating

Pros

  • Distinguished and sturdy design
  • Excellent single-core CPU performance
  • Great-looking display
  • Nothing feels cheap

Cons

  • Different USB implementations on the two ports
  • Trackpad lacks pressure-sensitivity
  • Multi-core performance lags
  • No P3 color gamut support

Our Verdict

The MacBook Neo is, in…

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16-inch MacBook Pro (M5 Max) review: Ultra speed with shocking reads

Macworld

At a glance

Expert's Rating

Pros

  • Outstanding overall speed
  • Drastic SSD speed improvement
  • Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 upgrades

Cons

  • No cellular connectivity option
  • Incremental CPU improvement over M4 Max
  • Higher starting prices

Our Verdict

If you want Apple’s best laptop and money is no object, it’s the M5 Max MacBook Pro. It’s fast, it…

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iPhone 17e Benchmarks Reveal A19 Chip Performance With a Tiny Catch

The first benchmarks for the iPhone 17e surfaced in the Geekbench 6 database today, offering a closer look at the A19 chip's performance.

For multi-core CPU performance, the highest score the iPhone 17e achieved so far is 9,241. As expected, this is nearly identical to the standard iPhone 17 model with the A19 chip, which has an average multi-core score of 9,249.

There is one tiny catch, as…

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Here's How Much Faster MacBook Air Gets With M5 Chip vs. M4 Chip

We now know how much faster the new MacBook Air with the M5 chip is compared to the previous model with an M4 chip, courtesy of a Geekbench 6 result shared by _TechRadar_ 's Lance Ulanoff. However, given the 14-inch MacBook Pro and the iPad Pro were already updated with the M5 chip last year, the result is not too surprising.

Ulanoff ran Geekbench on a MacBook Air with an M5 chip, which has a…

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Apple's M5 Max Chip Achieves a New Record in First Benchmark Result

The first Geekbench 6 result for a 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Max chip surfaced today, and Apple has achieved record-breaking performance.

In this unconfirmed result, the M5 Max with an 18-core CPU achieved a score of 29,233 for multi-core CPU performance, which tops the 27,726 score achieved by the Mac Studio's M3 Ultra chip with a 32-core CPU. M5 Max is now the fastest Apple silicon chip…

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