Apple MacBook Neo 13" A18 Pro, 8GB/512GB with Touch ID — Silver

The larger MacBook Neo, and the one worth choosing for two reasons: double the storage at 512 GB, and a Magic Keyboard with Touch ID. Storage on this machine is fixed at manufacture and cannot be added to later, so 512 GB is the difference between keeping a photo library and a few years of documents on the laptop or constantly managing space.

Touch ID matters more day to day than it sounds — it unlocks the machine, authorises app installs and fills passwords from Keychain without typing anything. The 256 GB model uses the standard Magic Keyboard without it.

Everything else is shared with the rest of the range: an Apple A18 Pro with a 6-core CPU, 5-core GPU with hardware ray tracing and a 16-core Neural Engine; a 13-inch IPS display at 2408 × 1506 and 500 nits; 8 GB of unified memory; Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 6; two USB-C ports and a headphone jack; and a 36.5 Wh battery rated up to 16 hours of video streaming, in a 1.23 kg body. Finished in silver.