You might expect the replacement of efficiency cores with balanced ones to have an impact on battery life, but this doesn’t appear to be the case. Macworld spotted that the new M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro models list the same maximum battery life as their predecessors:

Apple is clearly hoping to disrupt the affordable laptop market with the launch of the MacBook Neo, its most affordable MacBook ever with a starting price of $599.

Apple is continuing its affordability offensive with the pending release of the MacBook Neo, which is the company’s cheapest digital notebook ever. The product will set customers back just $599 for 256g storage (and $699 for 512g),