MacBook Neo starts at $599 with an A18 Pro chip, a bright 13-inch display, and clear trade-offs in ports, battery claims, and premium features.

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Rumors point to a redesigned MacBook Pro with OLED, touch support, thinner hardware, and M6 chips, but Apple’s launch timing still looks uncertain.

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Apple has updated its vintage and obsolete list, adding popular iPhones, MacBooks, and more. See which devices are affected and what it means.

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Apple has already launched several new devices in 2026, but more are coming. Here’s everything Apple has released so far, along with the products still expected this year.

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For about 18 years, every aluminum MacBook has looked more or less the same. Silver. Angular. Quietly serious. There’s nothing wrong with that. Apple’s unibody aluminum design, introduced in October 2008 and carved from a single block of metal, was genuinely elegant and set the template for an entire industry. But it also retired something along the way: the idea that a Mac laptop could feel chosen rather than just defaulted to.

The MacBook Neo, announced March 4 and starting at just $599, is the first real crack in that template. It comes in four colors (blush, indigo, silver, and a yellow-green called citrus) with enclosure corners that are noticeably softer than any aluminum Mac in recent memory. Whether that adds up to a proper design statement or just smart positioning is worth thinking through.

Designer: Apple

What happened to Apple’s color confidence

iBook G3 Clamshell (courtesy of Wikipedia)

Apple’s fondness for color didn’t always live inside an iPhone. The iBook G3, launched in 1999, came in tangerine and blueberry, and later in indigo and key lime. It was rounded, slightly toy-like, and completely unapologetic about being a consumer product. When the aluminum unibody arrived in 2008, Apple traded that warmth for precision machining and sharp rectilinear edges. Right call for the MacBook Pro. Default for everything else, apparently, for nearly two decades.

The result was a color drought in aluminum Mac laptops that has lasted until now. Silver, space gray, midnight, starlight: all variations on the same mood of professional restraint. The Neo’s citrus and blush aren’t just options on a spec page. They’re a quiet admission that not every laptop buyer wants a device that looks like it belongs in a boardroom. For Apple, that’s actually not a small thing to say at the product level.

Two different stories about corners

M1 MacBook Pro (2021)

There’s a distinction worth making here, because “rounded corners” gets used loosely when describing the Neo. MacBook displays have had rounded screen corners since 2021, which is a display-level detail and nothing new. What’s different on the Neo is the chassis itself. The physical aluminum enclosure is softer at the edges and corners than any aluminum Mac before it, and Apple’s own press materials describe “soft, rounded corners” specifically in terms of how the device feels to hold and carry.

That’s a real shift in the design language. The 2008 unibody was celebrated for machined sharpness, corners you could feel were engineered. The Neo softens that deliberately. It’s not a revival of the iBook, and it’s not trying to be, but the instinct is similar: a consumer Mac that feels a little more like it belongs to you. The notch is also gone, making this the first notchless MacBook since 2020, which quietly tidies up the one thing that made recent Airs feel slightly unfinished.

The repairability angle is actually a design story too

One thing that got a little buried under the color conversation: the Neo is the most repairable Mac laptop in years, and that’s partly a design decision worth noting. Teardowns showed how the whole machine was disassembled in just a few minutes using standard Torx screws throughout. No tape, no adhesive, anywhere inside. That’s a first for a modern Mac. The USB-C ports, speakers, and headphone jack are all modular. The keyboard can be replaced on its own, without swapping the entire top case, which on the MacBook Air currently costs over $370 in parts.

The internal simplicity isn’t accidental. The A18 Pro chip runs so efficiently that the Neo needs no fan at all, which removes a whole layer of thermal engineering that usually clutters a laptop’s interior. The result is a cleaner, more logical internal layout. Whether Apple arrived here from genuine design philosophy or from regulatory pressure (the EU’s right-to-repair push has been building for years) is an open question, but the outcome is real either way.

What it doesn’t fix, and what might come next

It’s not all sunshine and rainbows, of course. The base model has 8GB of non-upgradable RAM, one USB-C port runs at USB 2.0 speeds, and there’s no backlit keyboard. These are calculated trade-offs for the price point, not mistakes, but they matter depending on what you actually need the machine for. And repairability, for all the justified enthusiasm, is still partial: the RAM and storage are fixed at purchase, just like every other current Mac.

Still, the Neo feels like Apple designing for a specific person it had previously ignored: someone who was never going to spend $1,000 on a MacBook Air and wasn’t particularly well served by anything else Apple made. The color, the softer form, the price, the clean internals, all of it points at the same person. What’s genuinely interesting is whether any of this travels upmarket. If a future MacBook Air gets a color story this confident, the Neo might end up looking less like an entry-level product and more like Apple quietly figuring out what comes next.

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Apple is widely rumored to be launching an M6 MacBook Pro or a high-end MacBook Ultra sometime this year.

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Apple is reportedly planning its biggest MacBook Pro redesign in years, adding touchscreen support, OLED displays, new M6 chips, and more.

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Vous faites des vidéos face caméra pour YouTube ou Twitch et vous galérez à retenir vos textes ? Ou alors vous avez juste besoin d’un pense-bête qui reste toujours sous vos yeux pendant que vous bossez sur des trucs sérieux ? Si vous êtes sur Mac, y'a une petite pépite open source qui vient de sortir et qui utilise intelligemment un espace souvent critiqué de nos machines : NotchPrompter .

Ça se matérialise sous la forme d'une petite fenêtre de prompteur minimaliste qui vient se loger juste sous l’encoche (le fameux notch) de votre MacBook Air ou Pro. L'idée, c'est de garder votre texte le plus près possible de la caméra pour que votre regard ne semble pas fuir vers le bas ou le côté pendant que vous lisez.

Côté fonctionnalités, c'est de la "sobre-tech" efficace. Vous avez le défilement automatique avec une vitesse réglable, la possibilité d'ajuster la taille de la police, et même une fonction de pause automatique quand vous passez la souris sur la fenêtre. Le petit plus qui tue ? L'activation vocale pour démarrer ou stopper le prompteur à la voix, pratique quand on a les mains occupées. L’application est hyper légère et ne pompera pas vos précieuses ressources CPU, ce qui est crucial si vous enregistrez en même temps avec OBS ou ScreenFlow.

Le projet est disponible gratuitement sur GitHub sous licence MIT. Il vous faudra au minimum macOS 13.0 pour le faire tourner. Pour l'installation, direction la page des Releases, on télécharge le ZIP, on extrait et on glisse l'app dans le dossier Applications.

Petit point important, comme l'application n'est pas notarisée par Apple (le développeur préfère garder ses 99$ plutôt que de les filer à la pomme chaque année), macOS va râler au premier lancement. Pas de panique, il suffit d'aller dans vos Réglages Système > Confidentialité et sécurité, de descendre tout en bas et de cliquer sur "Ouvrir quand même". Si ça ne fonctionne pas, vous pouvez aussi tenter avec Sentinel . C'est le prix à payer pour de l'open source pur jus sur Mac.

Bref, que ce soit pour vos streams, vos présentations clients ou juste pour ne plus oublier vos notes en plein call Zoom, NotchPrompter est un outil génial qui transforme un défaut de design matériel en véritable atout productivité.

Merci à Lorenper pour le partage !

Depuis que le notch a fait son apparition sur les MacBook, vous avez probablement déjà tous râlé contre cette petite encoche qui grignote votre barre de menu. Mais voilà qu’un développeur pas con a eu une bonne idée : transformer ce bout d’écran perdu en quelque chose de vraiment pratique. Et une fois qu’on y goûte, on ne peut plus s’en passer.

DropNotch est donc une application gratuite qui métamorphose votre notch en zone de dépôt instantané pour vos fichiers. Glissez un document, une image ou n’importe quel fichier vers l’encoche, et une petite interface apparaît avec vos options de partage : AirDrop, Mail, Messages.

Le concept est tellement simple qu’on se demande pourquoi Apple n’y a pas pensé. Au lieu d’ouvrir le Finder, faire un clic droit, chercher l’option partager, vous balancez directement votre fichier sur le notch. Deux secondes chrono pour envoyer un PDF à un collègue.

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