It's been a wild week for Apple. After announcing a slew of new hardware, the company capped things off with its cheapest laptop ever: the $599 MacBook Neo. It's low on specs, but high on character and value. In this episode, Devindra and Engadget Deputy Editor Nathan Ingraham dive into the MacBook Neo, as well as the refreshed MacBook Air M5, MacBook Pro M5 Pro/Max, iPad Air M4 and iPhone 17e.
Compared with the standard five-seat Model Y, the Model Y L features a longer body and extended wheelbase to accommodate an additional row of seating. The Model Y L expands the Model Y lineup by offering additional seating capacity for customers seeking a larger electric SUV.
On the M1 through the M4 (and on the MacBook Neo's A18 Pro, a relative of the M4 family), performance cores will stay performance cores, and efficiency cores will stay efficiency cores. The macOS 26.3.1 update is also required to support Apple's new Studio Displays.
The episode covers The Sims franchise status, explores whether hardware colors influence buying choices, examines Apple's new pricing strategy with iPhone 17e and MacBook Neo, and evaluates the Studio Display XDR's value proposition in the current market.
The latter is a higher-end model aimed at content creators with a 27-inch 5K Retina XDR display that features a mini-LED display with 2,000-plus dimming zones, up to 2,000 nits of peak HDR brightness and a wider color gamut for improved accuracy. It also has a 120Hz refresh rate, addressing complaints about the relatively anemic 60Hz refresh rate of previous models.
