By estherdidsang@gmail.com 
The brand-new MacBook Neo is projected to be a hit in terms of sales and could turn out to be one of Apple’s most important laptops in recent memory. While its main claim to fame is the relatively affordable $599 base price ($499 for students), the Neo is also Apple’s most repairable laptop in a long time.
YouTuber Phone Repair Guru performed a teardown of the Neo, and the results are fascinating. Apple opted for an easily repairable design with key components like the battery, speakers, trackpad, USB ports and display held in place only with screws and connectors.
Virtually all modern laptops usually have thick layers of adhesive around the battery and soldered ports, so seeing a MacBook with user-friendly repairability in mind is certainly a welcome change.
MacBook Neo motherboard (top) vs iPhone 16 Pro motherboard (bottom)
The Neo also gets an impressively compact motherboard (for a laptop) which houses the brains of the device, like the A18 Pro chip, DRAM and NAND storage. Unfortunately, these components are soldered on, but that’s pretty much the case for any laptop these days.