{"id":223564,"date":"2026-05-26T20:47:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/were-starting-to-see-some-pc-makers-respond-to-apples-macbook-neo\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T20:47:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:47:31","slug":"were-starting-to-see-some-pc-makers-respond-to-apples-macbook-neo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/were-starting-to-see-some-pc-makers-respond-to-apples-macbook-neo\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re starting to see some PC makers respond to Apple&#8217;s MacBook Neo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It seems fair to say that <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/03\/apple-macbook-neo-review-can-a-mac-get-by-with-an-iphones-processor-inside\/\">Apple&#8217;s MacBook Neo<\/a> took the rest of the PC industry by surprise. Companies are used to competing on price and features with $1,000-and-up Apple laptops like the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, but their $600 and $700 models usually come with cut corners and compromises that are more noticeable than the Neo&#8217;s. The CEO of Asus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/laptops\/asus-chief-says-macbook-neos-affordable-pricing-came-as-a-shock-to-the-entire-pc-market-compares-usd599-notebook-to-a-tablet-and-content-consumption-device\">admitted to being surprised<\/a> by the laptop&#8217;s price (while simultaneously trying to downplay the Neo&#8217;s value); <a href=\"https:\/\/signal65.com\/research\/windows-11-pcs-compared-to-macbook-neo\/\">a Microsoft-backed study<\/a> comparing PCs to the MacBook Neo included several laptops that can&#8217;t compete with the Neo&#8217;s price unless they&#8217;re deeply discounted.<\/p>\n<p>In the last couple of weeks, we&#8217;ve started to see a more intentional and targeted response to the MacBook Neo from PC makers. These mostly seem to revolve around <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/04\/intels-non-ultra-core-cpus-are-new-silicon-this-year-for-a-change\/\">Intel&#8217;s low-end Core Series 3 processors<\/a>, codenamed Wildcat Lake; while Intel&#8217;s last few generations of low-end chips have mostly been rebrands of older and less power-efficient parts, Wildcat Lake is a new purpose-built budget chip that benefits from Intel&#8217;s latest CPU and GPU architectures and its 18A manufacturing process. This should help these chips compete better with the Apple A18 Pro in the MacBook Neo.<\/p>\n<p>Many early Wildcat Lake systems have already been announced, though not all have included a price tag, and several have only been announced for the Chinese market as of this writing. Lenovo is planning to launch some <a href=\"https:\/\/psref.lenovo.com\/Product\/IdeaPad\/IdeaPad_Slim_5_13IWC11\">IdeaPad Slim models<\/a> with the new processors, with some optional spec upgrades including 16GB of RAM and a 120 Hz high-refresh-rate display. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/112452-asus-hp-unveil-intel-wildcat-lake-laptops-starting.html\">Asus and HP<\/a> have also announced some early products.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/05\/were-starting-to-see-some-pc-makers-respond-to-apples-macbook-neo\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/05\/were-starting-to-see-some-pc-makers-respond-to-apples-macbook-neo\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems fair to say that Apple&#8217;s MacBook Neo took the rest of the PC industry by surprise. Companies are used to competing on price and features with $1,000-and-up Apple laptops like the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, but their $600 and $700 models usually come with cut corners and compromises that are more noticeable than the Neo&#8217;s. The CEO of Asus admitted to being surprised by the laptop&#8217;s price&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>We&#039;re starting to see some PC makers respond to Apple&#039;s MacBook Neo - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/were-starting-to-see-some-pc-makers-respond-to-apples-macbook-neo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We&#039;re starting to see some PC makers respond to Apple&#039;s MacBook Neo - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It seems fair to say that Apple&#8217;s MacBook Neo took the rest of the PC industry by surprise. 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