MacBook Neoβs A18 Pro Will Be Slower Than The Same SoC Found In The iPhone 16 Pro, As Apple Takes Chip-Binning Into Overdrive Mode
4 March 2026 at 19:19
The rumors were consistent on the claims that the MacBook NeoΒ would ship with the A18 Pro, and now that Apple is officially done announcing its most affordable portable Mac ever, our curiosity compelled us to find out what shortcuts the company took on the internal hardware side of things. Sure enough, we found one major difference between the SoC running in the latest release and the one powering the previous-generation iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. A18 Pro running in the MacBook Neo features a 5-core CPU, one less than the iPhone 16 Proβs silicon Where the iPhone [β¦]
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