Refurbished MacBook Neo Units Now Available After $150 Price Increase

Apple has introduced an option to purchase refurbished MacBook Neo units through its Certified Refurbished program. This option arrived a day after the company announced price hikes affecting Mac products, iPads, Apple TV 4K, and HomePod.

In Canada, the MacBook Neo is available in every colour through the refurbished program, including Citrus, Indigo, Blush, and Silver. You can find both the 256GB and 512GB model options as well. Through the Certified Refurbished program, a 256GB model costs $809. Alternatively, the 512GB model is $979.

The refurbished options are meant to provide more cost-effective alternatives since Apple raised prices on brand-new models it sells. Effective this week, MacBook Neo prices have increased from $799 to $949. The MacBook Neo, introduced earlier this year, was designed as an affordable entry point to the MacBook ecosystem.

MacBook Neo features a 13-inch Liquid Retina and is powered by the A18 Pro chip (6‑core CPU, 5‑core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine). The A18 is the same chipset found in the iPhone 16 Pro, allowing for a comparison of its power. The device also offers up to 16 hours of battery on a single charge, just shy of the 18 hours a MacBook Air provides. The 512GB model also includes Touch ID. Apple uses on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute, even for AI models, to ensure user privacy.

“We have now reached a point where we need to begin raising prices,” Apple said in a statement to the WSJ this week. “We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly.” This issue isn’t unique to Apple, as major tech companies are seeing the effects of increased prices for RAM and storage. Companies are buying components in such high volumes to power their server farms.