Microsoft fires shots at MacBook Neo, but that battle looks to be an uphill struggle — and rumored ditching of more affordable Surface laptops won't help

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  • A video showing the Neo's apparent strengths versus Windows laptops went viral on X
  • It wasn't a fair comparison, as pointed out in Microsoft's response — but the reaction of the computing public is even more telling
  • A rumor is also circulating that Microsoft has ditched a couple of more affordable Surface devices

It's a tricky old time for laptops, what with the RAM crisis pushing up prices, and Microsoft has taken the opportunity to launch a counterattack on the MacBook Neo, following Apple's recent price hikes — not that the Surface lineup isn't suffering itself, with rumors of more misery inbound in the form of cancelled models.

Windows Latest spotted the controversy around Windows laptops and the MacBook Neo, which wasn't started by Microsoft, but rather by a video that went viral on X. The clip, which was aired by @Ahmadansari2233and has racked up 5.4...

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