How would you (i.e., anyone) know what price “almost everyone” is saying? The assertion is not a falsifiable/testable statement. Apple’s MacBook Neo product page clearly says $599/$699, they’re the people who count. Amazon also clearly lists it with a $599/$689 price. One must explicitly go to Apple’s education product page to see the education pricing, and they clearly label the number there as that.
Tangentially related: Did Stephen Hackett ever say which version of the Neo he purchased: the base model or the $699 model with TouchID. I’ve 45 min into it and haven’t heard.
Interesting question. The TWiT transcript has not been posted yet. The Apple Podcasts app can view transcripts for the current podcast. I searched the text but could not find the answer to your question. My guess is he didn’t say; I’m going to presume he paid the normal price. Here’s the closest I cam to finding an answer:
”Now, staying on MacBook Neo for a minute, I just wanted, Stephen Hackett is here. He bought two MacBook Neos for his house.
How’s it going, Stephen? How’s MacBook Neo life? It’s great.
I’ve got the Indigo here with me, which I think is the best color. It’s a fantastic computer. I bought one for myself for a secondary Mac when I’m not at work, and bought a second one for one of my kids who is getting ready to enter middle school, and is going to need a computer at home for school stuff.
The price made it really easy to pick up two of these at once. Having used it a lot now for personal computer stuff, not work computer stuff, it’s absolutely fantastic. There’s YouTube and YouTubers and writers editing video on it.
It’s awesome that can do all that stuff, and it’s very impressive. But even just like the day-to-day stuff, the photos, the email, the browsing, social media stuff, it is absolutely incredible.”From MacBreak Weekly (Audio): We Found a Google, and Put it in - WWDC 2026 Dates Announced!, Mar 24, 2026
I had not used Apple Podcasts in a long time. I did it here because I was curious about your question and wanted to see how they handled transcripts. They clearly have gone out of their way to prevent an export of the entire transcript! They may do that for fear of liability or maybe some other dynamic in play. As I noted here, Marco Arment now has transcripts in a beta of Overcast (using the same Apple transcript-generation API). I am not on that beta. Features are limited in that first version, but Marco mentioned the world-changing utility of feeding a transcript to an AI in ATP 683. A transcript of ATP 683 is available here.
Someday, we will reminisce when people actually listened to an entire podcast episode like an animal (spoken in my best Rene Ritchie voice). The world is changing.