This week, Apple unveiled its latest budget-friendly notebook, the MacBook Neo, priced starting at 4,599 yuan, sparking significant interest among tech aficionados. The device has made its appearance on the Geekbench benchmarking platform, identified by the model name Mac17,5, and is equipped with the A18 Pro chip, which boasts a 6-core CPU and a 5-core GPU configuration. Benchmark results indicate a single-core score hovering around 3,461, nearly matching the performance benchmarks of the M3/M4 chips, and a multi-core score of 8,668, which edges out the original M1 chip by a small margin. However, due to the reduction in GPU cores compared to its counterparts, its Metal graphics benchmark score is marginally lower than that of the iPhone 16 Pro. The MacBook Neo is tailored for light office workloads, making it an ideal choice for web browsing, office productivity applications, and video playback, though it may not be the best fit for resource-intensive tasks like video editing and 3D modeling. Apple asserts that, when pitted against Intel Core Ultra notebooks, the MacBook Neo delivers up to a 50% boost in performance for everyday tasks and up to three times faster local AI computation capabilities.