This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, March 16th, 2026.

We tell you what you need to know, give you some important context, and try to help each other understand.

Today, the most repairable MacBook since the Obama years is also the cheapest. It's the most repairable since Gundam style came out as a matter of it. I'm Tom Merritt. I'm Rob Dunwoid, but I've got to ask, it's been that long since that song came out. I thought I just heard it like the other day. I guess you could still hear songs. They're old. But you might have. I've just heard it. I'm Tom Marri. Let's start with what

you need to know with the big story. I fix it gave the MacBook Neo a six out of 10. Now, you may

say six out of 10. How good is that? For a Mac, it's pretty darn good.

And it's actually, you know, getting close to being like, oh, that's, that's fairly repairable.

As we mentioned, most repairable MacBook in 14 years. The big thing is they didn't glue the battery in.

It's a battery in a tray with 18 screws. screws is a lot of screws but those are 18 screws

you can easily take out rather than glue which might damage the battery and even risk some

kinds of of explosions or or other damage so it's very simple to take out you undo the screws

you take it out i fix it suggests that they might be doing this because the EU requires user replaceable batteries by mid-20207. So we might see this on other laptops, but the Neo is the first. Apple also gives you a list of all the screw types used inside the device when you open it up,

which is something really good for recyclers.

That might be something they're trying to apply to their list of green credentials out there.

But that's something they're not mandated to do.

IFix it also found no parts pairing issues.

None of this situation where you put in your

own battery and it's like, whoa, you have an unauthorized battery. They also noted easier keyboard

replacement and generally a flat disassembly tree. That means that you don't have parts stacked

unnecessarily behind each other or behind glue and everything's fairly easy to get out of there. On the downside,

RAM is still soldered in. And there's a few other bits and bobs that are a little more difficult that

maybe they would absolutely necessarily be. That's why you get a six, not a seven, and eight, or a nine.

But Rob, I think a lot of people were very surprised because they assume that Apple just doesn't

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