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Windows Central
Windows Central
Technology
Daniel Rubino

The MacBook Neo isn’t innovation. It’s Apple finally owning up to the iPad myth and hoping no one notices.

Macbook Neo and iPad with shattered glass.

If you’re looking for me to dump on the new MacBook Neo … this isn’t that. I’ll just default to the “it’s great for $599” position for the sake of simplicity.

Instead, I want to talk about the gaslighting Apple has done here and how tech media, as usual, just goes with it without even noticing it, which makes me perturbed. (And don’t get me started on how no one in the tech press reviews low-end Windows PCs, but now they suddenly care about the category.)

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