Major weakness: Apple MacBook Neo battery life suffers from excessive cost cutting

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The initial batch of Apple MacBook Neo reviews is now online, revealing a big compromise that Apple has had to make to keep the price down. More specifically, the battery life of the MacBook Neo might disappoint some fans, as it gets handily beaten by the MacBook Air 13.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Major-weakness-Apple-MacBook-Neo-battery-life-suffers-from-excessive-cost-cutting.1246942.0.html

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What a strange mistake - another 10 or 20Wh would amount to something like $10 or $20 on a per unit basis. Whatever you think about 8gb of RAM, that was pretty clearly necessary to hit the price point, but battery is an easy feature to provide cheaply if weight and bulk are secondary and you're working with an efficient SoC like the A18.