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• @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x

  So what's interesting about the MacBook Neo is for educational institutions buying, it can be as affordable as a Chromebook $494 per unit for a 5 pack, 2.99% financing, AppleCare available, and $100 guaranteed residual after 4 years

• @chriswelch Chris Welch on x

  This is easily going to be my biggest day at Bloomberg in the 10 months I've been here so far. First up: MacBook Neo review. Yes, a $599 Apple laptop is every bit as transformative as expected. The bar has been raised. Free to read gift link: https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @business @business on x

  Review: Apple's new MacBook Neo is a game changer for the laptop industry — even without the frills of higher-end models https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @chancehmiller Chance Miller on x

  MacBook Neo review: A truly great Mac at an unbelievable price https://9to5mac.com/...

• @lanceulanoff Lance Ulanoff on x

  This should surprise no one Apple MacBook Neo: the best budget laptop you can buy https://www.techradar.com/...

• @ijustine @ijustine on x

  Unboxing all 4 colors of the new MacBook Neo! [video]

• @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x

  Here's my M5 Max report, it's a wonderful chip. The idle is lower than M4 Max while the peak performance is even higher. AI performance is, as you would expect, very very good. I think this is the best laptop SoC on the market, which is no surprise. https://creativestrategies.com…

• @vadimyuryev Vadim Yuryev on x

  Told you guys M5 Max would at least match the desktop RTX 5080! Now let's wait and see how fast M5 Ultra is 😎

• @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x

  Here are your M5 Max benchmarks compared to M4 Max and M3 Ultra [image]

• @ronaldmannak Ronald Mannak on x

  MLX benchmarks are in and I did not expect these results. the M5 Max blows the M3 Ultra out of the water, despite having more GPU cores and higher memory bandwidth. Compute-bound prefill is much faster (up to 2x) thanks to the new M5 Neural Accelerators, but also memory-bound [im…

• @ronaldmannak Ronald Mannak on x

  Tl;DR: Time to first token, where GPU speed matters most, is 2.5× faster on the M5 Max than on the M4 Max! It's also 1.5× faster than the M3 Ultra in llama.cpp testing, though not in MLX. I assume llama.cpp is tapping into the new Neural Accelerators. Now I really want to see

• @benbajarin Ben Bajarin on x

  It's a true workstation in a notebook. The efficiency story and the way power is managed for not just the S and P cores but also the CPU/NPU tile and the GPU tile is impressive.

• @markgurman Mark Gurman on x

  Only with Apple is the new MacBook Pro lasting an extra 26 minutes - after a year and a half - considered an “astonishing” upgrade.

• @rayfernando1337 Ray Fernando on x

  Holy moly!! Apple M5 Max has a massive PP (Prompt Processing) score. The M5 Ultra is going to be bananas. [image]

• @digitalix Alex Ziskind on x

  Apple made some huge claims about the M5 Max, so I put it side by side with my M4 Max and an M3 Ultra to see what actually changed. One result caught me completely off guard. (NEW VIDEO link in reply) [image]

• @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x

  For M5 Max NPU/Neural Engine, here's a bit from GPT 5.4 codex playing around with it [image]

• @lafaiel @lafaiel on x

  @mweinbach GPU RT acceleration performance improved a lot. It's up nearly 40% from M4 and even beat the M3 Ultra

• @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x

  From my testing, M5 Max is better than M3 Ultra in a lot of AI workloads on MLX. Can be up to 98% faster on some models. M5 Max has half the number of GPU cores, it's the new GPU IP and neural accelerators. M5 Max is insanely good.

• @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x

  You'll have more M5 Max stuff from me once ChatGPT makes this stupid chart (it's been running for 10 minutes) but it's extremely good. The idle package power on this thing averages like under 1W even without efficiency cores [image]

• @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x

  @lafaiel yup, here's some cyberpunk in gaming it's easily RTX 5080/5090M performance, without AI upscaling [image]

• @vadimyuryev Vadim Yuryev on x

  Awesome complete chart of Apple Silicon chip performance by @SimeonNikolov! Crazy to see how the new M5 Pro matches the multi-core performance of the M3 Ultra. Can't believe THAT much power is going into a 14" MacBook Pro! Full Link to site: https://laptopmedia.com/... [image]

• @chris_ciaccia Chris Ciaccia on x

  Assuming roughly 70M laptops sold in the US every year, I would think the MacBook Neo could comfortably boost Apple's market share by 25% (from 10-11M Macs sold to 13-14M).

• @benbajarin Ben Bajarin on x

  Macbook Neo is also remarkably capable. I ran a Geekbench CPU test, while watching a movie, and working in Excel plus web browsing and had no issues in performance. Here is what A18 Pro looked like under that exact stress test. [image]

• @benbajarin Ben Bajarin on x

  I've had the MacBook Neo for about a week and it is incredibly capable. But what I was most excited about with macOS running on an A series was to get to see core performance. So for the firs time! A18 Pro wattage! [image]

• @snazzylabs Quinn Nelson on x

  The only MacBook Neo SKUs available for in-store pickup tomorrow at my 3 local Apple Stores are silver. It's almost... it's almost like people enjoy when Apple does colors?

• @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x

  MacBook Neo is totally sold out at 2 of the Apple Stores near me across a bunch of SKUs [image]

• @its_shevi Shevon Salmon on x

  MacBook Neo in it's natural habitat 🍋‍🟩💻 [image]

• @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x

  So did everyone see you can run Cyberpunk on the MacBook Neo

• @neilcybart Neil Cybart on x

  My MacBook Neo - Citrus unboxing. [video]

• @ijustine @ijustine on x

  This guy said the MacBook Neo couldn't run Chrome + Spotify + Canva without crying. YA OK, HOLD MY iPHONE SIRRRRRR [video]

• @neilcybart Neil Cybart on x

  Here were my initial impressions seeing and feeling MacBook Neo - Citrus. 🍋‍🟩 [video]

• @raywongy Ray Wong on x

  Our MacBook Neo review is live on @Gizmodo. @KyleBarr5 put the $600 laptop through its paces: 👍Sturdy aluminum design 🌈Fun colors 💻Great Retina display 💪A18 Pro chip performance is decent ☑️No app compatibility probs 🎱8GB RAM is more than sufficient for browsing/streaming [image]

• r/hardware r on reddit

  Apple MacBook Neo review: Can a Mac get by with an iPhone's processor inside?

• @benbajarin Ben Bajarin on x

  MacBook Neo in Maui. I may be the first person in all of Maui rocking MacBook Neo lol. Also the speakers on this. Incredible at this price [image]

• r/apple r on reddit

  Apple MacBook Neo review: Can a Mac get by with an iPhone's processor inside?  - Arstechnica

• @vcsjones.dev Kevin Jones on bluesky

  This is very exciting.  Pumped to play with my MacBook Neo when it arrive tomorrow. www.theverge.com/tech/891741/ ...

• r/apple r on reddit

  Apple MacBook Neo review: a budget-priced game-changer - TomsHardware