NEW Mac Neo at $299? Apple's Cheapest Desktop Ever...?

So then guys, could Apple create a Mac Neo, the younger brother to the likes of a Mac Mini? Well, today let's talk about options if Apple could really do this. So right now, just recently, we just had the brand new MacBook Neo announced from Apple. This is this new budget line MacBook. It has got a great quality with aluminum or aluminum depending you are in the world. A great display at 500 nits. rest their display too. Great keyboard and for the money it's absolutely superb for casual users out there. But the big thing what people have been talking about recently is that could Apple actually make just say a Mac Neo. This would like I say be the younger brother of the likes of the Mac Mini right now. Now don't get me wrong, the Mac Mini is superb machine right now. You can actually pick up one of these for $599 US or for example with the education discount you can pick this up for $499 US for it. So it's really really great value and the power you get with it with the lie M4 it's absolutely amazing. The form factor is also great with it too. But with this new Mac Neo what you can see from here from these renders technically speaking we could have an even slimmer machine. we would probably wouldn't even need a fan inside of this new Mac Neo. And that's why we could actually get it more thinner than what we have right now. Because if you've ever opened up the lights of a Mac Mino, you know, you've got the fan and everything like that. And it takes up a little bit more space with its heat sink and bits and pieces. So, Apple could slim this down and make it even more smaller. It would be somewhere between, say, an Apple TV kind of puck what we have right now and also the Mac Mini kind of puck that we have right now. So you can imagine something in between or something, you know, even thinner than we have with the Mac Mini, like I said with these renders right now. So then guys, just quickly, I want to tell you about the international giveaway for this right here. It is a Mac Mini with an M4 Pro. That's right, 512 GB of storage, 24 GB of RAM, and I'm giving this away to one lucky subscriber on this channel. And I'm giving it away super soon because I'm going to be giving it away when we get to 800,000 subscribers. And if you look right now, we're not that far away. And all you have to do to enter in is just three simple things. The first thing you need to do is make sure you're subscriber yourself. So, make sure you subscribe to this channel right now. And the other thing I'd recommend to do is forward on this video to your friends and family. Do it in iMessage, WhatsApp, whatever you use. send it on to your friends and family right now to actually get your hands, you know, on potentially this new Mac Mini M4 Pro and get them to enter in, too. Because, like I said, the closer we get to 800,000 subscribers, the closer when I can give this away. Now, the second thing I want to quickly say is that the next thing you need to do is just put down into the comments below of what technology gear you're hoping to get in 2026. Maybe it's going to be a new MacBook Neo. Maybe it's going to be a new Mac Mini. Maybe it's going to be a new iPad. or maybe it's got nothing to do with Apple whatsoever. It could be a Nintendo Switch 2, a PS5, whatever it is, put it down to the comments below right now. Now, the third thing to mention is that when we do get to 800,000 subscribers, I will be making a video on this channel telling you even more details about the giveaway and including a form to fill in too. So, if you haven't done so already, make sure you hit the notification bell because you will definitely want to see that video. Also, like I said, when you share this video with your friends and family, if you haven't done so already, do it right now. Make sure to get them to press the notification bell too because obviously they will get notified as well with the details of the actual giveaway and the live stream when I'm going to give this actually away. Now, the last thing I just want to quickly say to you guys that sadly there are still lots of scammers and spammers out there. People still impersonate me to WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram direct message. Please do ignore these people right here. Please do report them. But a lot of you guys are wondering, well, what would this new Neo do and who would it be for? Well, I'd expect this new Neo if Apple were to release it, they would probably bring it out in a variety of lots of special colors, very similar like the iMac and also the likes of the MacBook Neo, but they would also probably put inside of it again a sort of small amount of storage and also a base amount of RAM and also say a mobile chip. Most likely it would be an A18 Pro again inside the Mac Mini and again with 8 GB of RAM and probably without storage 256 GB storage. Again, essentially what you'd be looking at is what the guts you've got right now in the likes of a MacBook Neo will just be replicated and put inside to a smaller kind of Mac Mini chassis. Right now you'd get exactly the same things just minus the keyboard, trackpad, speakers, and obviously display. it would just literally be the same thing. Now, for ports wise, I would say you'd probably get very similar ports to what you have with say the likes of the Mac Mini right now. The only difference what I would be saying is you probably wouldn't get things like say Thunderbolt ports. This is very unlikely. It'd probably just be standard USB 2 and USB 3 ports. So, very similar again to the Mac Neo where we've only got two of them, but the main difference is that probably you'd have a few more than we have in the Mac Neo. So probably again two or three ports on the back of USB uh C and then probably one or two on the front with USBC. Again, you probably still have an Ethernet port on the rear, HDMI obviously and obviously your power as well. And then obviously inside of this you would have say a standard sort of network chip probably running on say the likes of say Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 6E just to keep the budget down. Then on top of that too, the actual sort of main configuration inside us, it'd probably be an A18 Pro like I mentioned because this is more than enough for this kind of casual kind of people out there who would actually use this new Mac Neo. So moving on from this then for the Mac Neo, who would this actually be designed for? Well, I think it's literally the kind of I would say the desktop users equivalent of what we have with the MacBook Neo right now. These are the people who just need a computer at home who they just want to log on to something, you know, to check their emails, check their work. You get the idea there. Or it'd be great to have underneath your TV if you just want to quickly log on, plug into your TV and do some work from that, too. I know some people are going to go, "Well, the Apple TV could do that." But do remember if we had say like an A18 Pro and the new Apple TV is getting the A17 Pro. You may as well just stick with the Apple TV for your content. You get the idea there. But this device would be great to take around with you if you're on business or things like this too. If you didn't want to lug around the likes of say a laptop, you could take this with you. This would be a great device. Again, you bring your own keyboard, you bring your own mouse. You get the idea. Off you go. And this would be a fantastic device to just do browsing the web and doing whatever you want with it. It wouldn't be sophisticated enough to do kind of high Final Cut Pro with 8K video raw images or things like that. It would just be a standard machine very similar to what the Neo is right now just in its desktop form. But then the next question you guys probably want to know is what about the release time and also the price with this? What could Apple do? Well, officially there's nothing on the card. So, Apple going to release even a Mac Neo. So, I'm just going to say that. But the thing is there's nothing stopping them. I would say actually creating this device and it could still even come out in 2026 cuz essentially like I said all you have to do is just rip out some of the parts of the likes of a Mac and put it inside of a slightly smaller form factor than what we got with the Mac Mini and then off you go. But for pricewise I think this is where the important bit would be. You could probably actually pick up this likes of this Mac Neo for probably even like $399 with that kind of configuration. We talked about $256 GB of storage and alo 8 GB of RAM. And I could even imagine Apple doing an educators value for this for $299 for that configuration. This would be great to see. Again, probably Apple would do things like upping the storage. It would cost you a bit more than that. I don't think it'd be $100 more because obviously you don't get things like Touch ID, but you get the idea. I think there'd be two kind of options with that. Don't expect RAM to be an upgraded option. It would just literally be the chip, the RAM, what you get, but it would be the storage of something where you could actually fiddle around with it. But really guys, I think the idea of a Mac Neo would be absolutely awesome. And I, for one, would love to get my hands on one if it did come out. What would your thoughts be? Would you like to get your hands on a Mac Neo if they ever invented one? And do you think Apple should actually create one? Well, let me know in the comments below. And on that note as well, guys, it's time to wrap up this video, too. So, if you have enjoyed watching it, please do press the like button. And as always, you want to hear the latest Apple news, reviews, and comparisons, make sure you subscribe to this channel and hit that notification bell. Until next time, guys. I'll see you really soon. Take care. Bye-bye.

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