TL;DR: Get a near-mint Apple MacBook Pro 13″ (2020) with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD for $394.97 through June 14 and upgrade to premium Apple hardware without paying premium-new pricing. Nobody really buys a laptop because they love buying laptops.

It's a beautiful laptop, and yet I've pretty much hidden it in my computer setup. It's on the vertical stand behind the right-hand display. Photo: David Snow/Cult of Mac I’ve focused on my own workstation just a few times in several years of handling ...

All of Apple's laptops are excellent. But if you're not sure which model is right for you, I can offer some guidance.

Here we go again. The new MacBook Pro is the best laptop you can buy, plain and simple. It runs MacOS, which isn't for everyone, and it's not cheap — but if you love MacOS (like me) and have a bunch of money to spend (unlike me 😞), then the new ...

It seems fair to say that Apple’s MacBook Neo took the rest of the PC industry by surprise. Companies are used to competing on price and features with $1,000-and-up Apple laptops like the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro,

Dell just announced its new 13-inch XPS for $599 with student pricing, making it a direct competitor to the Neo.

One of the things that conversation seems to have missed is the idea that the Neo is perfectly equipped to do the only thing that tech companies seem to think anyone cares about: AI. You can argue whether that’s actually true, but there’s no question ...