The $599 MacBook Neo is Apple's long-awaited colorful, lower-cost MacBook

Most of Apple's announcements this week have been fairly straightforward internal updates to existing products, give or take some big architectural changes to its high-end processors.

But Apple has saved its most interesting announcement for today: The MacBook Neo is a new lower-cost member of Apple's laptop family and will take over for the 13-inch MacBook Air as the company's entry-level laptop. The new laptop starts at $599, the same as the M1 MacBook Air that Apple has been selling through Walmart in the US...