MacBook Neo, Studio Display XDR, iPhone 17e and more, on the AppleInsider Podcast
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ποΈ 6 March 2026
β±οΈ 73 minutes
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Summary
Apple released a slew of new devices this week, including the stellar MacBook Neo and iPhone 17e, plus the very good Studio Display XDR, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.
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Links from the Show:
- Apple itself has leaked a 'MacBook Neo'
- Studio Display Pro rumors resurface after code references suggest a premium model
- iPhone 17e arrives with A19 chip upgrade and MagSafe charging
- There's not much in the new M4 iPad Air update other than speed
- Performance anxiety: iPad Air M4 chip is binned, has only three performance cores
- MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max arrive, with few surprises
- How M5 Pro and M5 Max push MacBook Pro into high-bandwidth AI era
- New M5 MacBook Air gets double the storage, Wi-Fi 7, and a higher price
- New Studio Display XDR immediately outshines the updated Studio Display
- MacBook Neo is Apple's new $599 entry-level notebook
- MacBook Neo has compromises, but not all of them will matter to you
- MacBook Neo name chosen to reflect its 'fun, friendly, and fresh' look
- MacBook Neo vs M5 MacBook Air: Budget notebooks compared
- MacBook Neo is (probably) not for you, that doesn't make it a failure
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (01:24) - Apple launches
- (17:49) - iPad Air
- (23:36) - MacBook Pro
- (33:41) - Studio Displays
- (50:39) - MacBook Neo
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the opposite side of podcast on William Gallagher. |
| 0:12.2 | Our sponsors this week are Nord Stella and Claude by Anthropic, more about both of those later. |
| 0:17.2 | And I'm joined by Wesley Hilliard, as ever. |
| 0:19.9 | But today, this is particularly important to me because I'm joined by Wesley Hilliard as ever. But today, this is particularly important |
| 0:22.2 | to me, because I'm just this second in from a school. And you know what it's like in a school? |
| 0:27.9 | I was working as a visiting author. You can have your phone with you, fine, but it can't be on. |
| 0:31.8 | So I had no clue whether anything launched since Wednesday. And it looks like, no, Apple's definition of a week is yet |
| 0:40.6 | again three days only. Wes, is American just have shorter weeks than British people? What's going on |
| 0:49.4 | there? I think we tend to have longer weeks. Some people definitely want the four-day work week. |
| 0:56.0 | But no, it just seems to be that Apple likes their Monday through Wednesday announcements, |
| 1:02.0 | which is fine. |
| 1:03.2 | If they spread it out anymore, it would have been silly. |
| 1:06.2 | Like, here's a studio display on one day and a MacBook on the other. |
| 1:09.2 | Like, that have been too much. |
| 1:11.4 | Honestly, three days might be too much. |
| 1:13.5 | But it does help us in our coverage because then we get to kind of slowly pace through. |
| 1:19.0 | And it kind of happened in a way that we weren't expecting. |
| 1:24.1 | Well, I knew I was actually figuring three days was like you because we've had this here before. |
| 1:29.0 | Did I have this with you or just in my head that might say a lot about me? |
| 1:33.8 | I was to have a running kind of bet of what sequence this would come out. |
| 1:37.6 | And I was trying to work out what was the most dramatic reveal order. |
| 1:43.6 | And I got it totally wrong, really, and things. |
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