‘PC makers are not ready for the MacBook Neo’ ↦

I don’t know a lot about the current state of PC laptops. (My wife has a work-issued Lenovo Thinkpad and I hide it in its little carrying case every time I spot it loose in my house. I’m sorry, but I have my standards.) But Antonio G. Di Benedetto of The Verge has reviewed the MacBook Neo as well as numerous PC laptops, and he thinks it’s not going to go well for PC makers:

I said in my review that the Neo embarrasses an entire class of affordable Windows laptops, but further embarrassment awaits these companies if they have nothing to answer it with. I hope they’re already working on that next generation of laptops that will actually compete at $600. And I really hope companies like Asus, Microsoft, Dell, HP, Acer, Samsung, and MSI have an actual understanding of what makes their new competition so good, and what it can do for a whole lot less than current Windows-based offerings. I reached out to all these companies, and the answers I’ve received so far are expectedly milquetoast.

I don’t know how this is all going to go, but it does feel like PC makers are going to have to up their game or they’re going to get run over by Apple’s entry into this price segment.

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