Despite running a mobile CPU and Windows in a virtual machine, the MacBook laptop excelled in single-core CPU performance.

Apple’s new MacBook Neo, with its A18 Pro chip and just 8GB of RAM, is good enough for running Windows 11 in a virtual machine with Parallels Desktop for Mac.

Apple just did something that was, until very recently, almost unthinkable: It put a Mac laptop on sale for $599. And, no big surprise, the new MacBook Neo announced Wednesday already sparks concerns ...