Is Mobile Eating the PC? The MacBook Neo, the Googlebook, and the Laptop That Became a Phone
For forty years we told ourselves a comforting story. There were real computers, and then there were phones.
Real computers were beige towers and heavy notebooks that hummed and blew hot air. They had sockets and slots, DIMMs you could pull out with your thumbs, graphics cards the size of a brick, and an x86 processor that could run software written before you were born. Phones were the little sibling. They were sealed and soldered, thermally starved, kept on a tight battery budget, and built around an ARM chip whose whole job was to sip power and stay cool in your pocket.
In 2026, that story died twice.
In March, Apple shipped the MacBook Neo, a $599 Mac whose processor is not a "laptop chip" at all. It is the A18 Pro, the exact chip that powered the iPhone 16 Pro in 2024. Apple's own announcement...
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