Apple MacBook Neo 13" A18 Pro, 8GB/256GB — Citrus

The MacBook Neo in Citrus, the brightest of the four finishes. Apple’s most affordable laptop runs the A18 Pro rather than an M-series chip — six CPU cores, a 5-core GPU with hardware-accelerated ray tracing, and a 16-core Neural Engine for on-device Apple Intelligence features.

Its 13-inch LED-backlit IPS display runs 2408 × 1506 at 219 pixels per inch, reaches 500 nits and covers a billion colours. The body is 1.27 cm thick and weighs 1.23 kg, making this the lightest Mac laptop Apple sells — built for writing, browsing, classwork and streaming, carried every day rather than left on a desk.

This configuration pairs 8 GB of unified memory with a 256 GB SSD; both are fixed at manufacture. Two USB-C ports (one USB 3, one USB 2) plus a headphone jack, Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 6, a 1080p FaceTime HD camera, and a 36.5 Wh battery rated up to 16 hours of video streaming.