MacBook Neo Teardown Shows Apple’s Most Repairable Laptop Design Since 2012

Apple is making waves its MacBook Neo starting at $599, or $499 with a education discount, with surprisingly solid performance for a system built around a smartphone chip and just 8GB of RAM. As it turns out, performance is not the only surprise. The folks at iFixIt tore into Apple's most affordable MacBook ever launched and poured on the praise for what it declared to be the "most repairable MacBook in 14 years."

It's a curious turn of a events, given Apple's rough track record for DIY repairs and how its MacBook devices have historically performaned in past teardowns. The MacBook Neo is still not perfect in that regard and its 6 out of 10 score may seem middling at first glance, but the teardown crew notes it is a "strong score" by MacBook standards.

To get inside the MacBook Neo, you still need to remove a ...