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MacBook Neo Pre-Orders at Best Buy Include Free $25 Gift Card

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Earlier today we began tracking the first pre-order offers on the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, and now the MacBook Neo has joined in at Best Buy. If you pre-order the new low-cost MacBook Neo at Best Buy, you'll get a free $25 Best Buy gift card after purchase.

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In order to get the deal, you need to pre-order any MacBook Neo model at Best Buy with a valid e-mail address. The e-gift card will be sent out after you receive the MacBook Neo, or after you pick it up in a Best Buy store.

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MacBook Neo at Best Buy

Apple announced the MacBook Neo today, and it's now the cheapest MacBook in the lineup starting at $599 and powered by the A18 Pro chip. Apple says it is up to 50% faster for everyday tasks than the bestselling PC with the latest shipping Intel Core Ultra 5, up to 3x faster for on-device AI workloads, and up to 2x faster for tasks like photo editing.

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Blackstick Avatar
Blackstick
2 hours ago at 11:10 am
The discounts have begun. By Black Friday these will be available for $449. Opens Apple to an entire market they never had before. It's like if BMW made a new vehicle for $25,000 in this decade.

Yes there was a Mac mini, but that's $600 without a keyboard/mouse/display and isn't mobile. This is the ultimate gift for someone who doesn't need Air/Pro level equipment.

This Mac has to beat the $500 POS Windows plastic trash sitting on a shelf next to it at Walmart or Costco or Target, not a $1100 MacBook Air or a $2200 MacBook Pro. And it will.
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WarmWinterHat
2 hours ago at 11:16 am

Yeah, and why nerf it with max 512GB?
Less SKUs for Apple.
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jlc1978
2 hours ago at 11:58 am

The discounts have begun. By Black Friday these will be available for $449. Opens Apple to an entire market they never had before.
Which is the whole point, and something missed by many posters; not everyone needs a lot of power.


It's like if BMW made a new vehicle for $25,000 in this decade.
Sig me up, a successor to the '02.


My point is not that the Apple laptop is too expensive; for an Apple laptop I think $499 is right where it should be. But I don’t think it’s a bargain or anything like that; it’s competitive with lower end PC offerings, and, of course, destroyed performance-wise/price-wise by anyone willing to put in the legwork to work a deal on the PC side.
Maybe, but for people who want a Mac but balked tax the price this can be a compelling offering, especially since I suspect it will regularly be discounted. It will be interesting to see what Back to School promo it gets.


Wish they had one in green to remind of a turtle. That is how fast this computer will perform with 8gb RAM.
Sometimes, a turtle is fast enough to win the race. For the target market, 8GB will do the job; no one is buying this thinking the can run huge spreadsheets or LLMs natively on it.

What I find interesting is the argument "Apple should turn the iPhone in to a dockable computer" becomes "It's useless...an atrocity...etc." when they essentially turn an iPhone into a Mac.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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foo2
2 hours ago at 11:11 am

You know the power of the machine will be a huge problem when we are compering ourselves with intel core ultra 5.
For the uninitiated —- errr, why? That’s what it will be competing against in the market, and I see Core Ultra 5 devices in about that price range too.
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Blackstick
2 hours ago at 11:13 am

It’s $499 now for anyone who logs into Apple’s Edu Store. From an Apple point of view that’s a compelling price.

I do wish, though, that they’d at least put 12GB of RAM into it. 8GB is too limiting in 2026.
When they run out of A18 chips, the A19 will come along with 12gb... it'll just be in late 2027.With the RAM crunch, I see why.
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Blackstick
2 hours ago at 11:17 am

Yeah, and why nerf it with max 512GB?
Because it's very unlikely folks will be storing hours of 8K video or 400MP pixel-shifted RAWs on this little guy. The Air and Pro serve those more demanding markets.

Google Docs, TikTok, Reddit and iPhone snapshots don't require that kind of storage.
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