{"id":2208,"date":"2026-03-10T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:15:33","slug":"macbook-neo-review-a-truly-great-mac-at-an-unbelievable-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/macbook-neo-review-a-truly-great-mac-at-an-unbelievable-price\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Neo review: A truly great Mac at an unbelievable price"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/macbook-neo-citrus-0000.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I bought my first Mac in 2007: a black polycarbonate MacBook. To this day, I think it\u2019s the most consequential purchase I\u2019ve made in my life.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/bestbuycreators.7tiv.net\/X4YBoa\">introduced MacBook Neo<\/a>. It\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/03\/04\/macbook-neo-is-now-official\/\">fascinating Mac<\/a>, and not just because of the price. After using it for the past six days, I think it\u2019s set to drive a new wave of people to the Mac ecosystem. Here\u2019s why.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p><em>Limited time: <a href=\"https:\/\/bestbuycreators.7tiv.net\/X4YBoa\">Pre-order MacBook Neo<\/a> at Best Buy and score a <a href=\"https:\/\/bestbuycreators.7tiv.net\/X4YBoa\">$25 gift card<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"mac,macbook-neo\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1042734\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/03\/10\/macbook-neo-review\/#more-1042734\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought my first Mac in 2007: a black polycarbonate MacBook. To this day, I think it\u2019s the ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/2211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}