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Facepalm: Few Apple devices have won as much praise as the MacBook Neo. Cupertino's excellent budget laptop outsold the MacBook Air and Pro during its first three weeks, and it seems AMD is feeling a little jealous of all the attention. Team Red has just posted ads for its Ryzen laptops boasting of their gaming abilities, while also pointing out that the MacBook Neo can only play five out of twenty top PC games natively.
Like other companies, AMD likely feels a little threatened by the success of a budget MacBook, so it's gone after its weakest area: PC gaming.
In its Ryzen AI processors ad, AMD compares an HP OmniBook X Flip, which features last year's Zen 4-based Ryzen 5 220, against the Neo, which uses Apple's A18 Pro chip. The company writes that the x86 machine offers access to game libraries across Steam, Epic, and PC Game Pass, complete with "high frame rates" and "advanced graphics," and with "No workarounds required"
