The long-standing debate between Windows and macOS platforms has recently been rekindled by AMD in an unexpected way. AMD official website releases new marketing materials,Directly targeting Apple's latest cost-effective MacBook Neo, highlighting its game compatibility advantages, and using the slogan "Everything that MacBook Neo abandons, AMD Ryzen AI processor is built in for you".
In the official promotion, AMD emphasized that,Among the 20 most popular PC games in the world, MacBook Neo can only run 5 of them natively, and the remaining 15 do not support native running.
Windows notebooks equipped with Ryzen processors can run all 20 games and seamlessly access the massive libraries of the three major game platforms: Steam, Epic Games Store and PC Game Pass.AMD also specially emphasized in bold font that all this "does not require any workarounds" and can be played immediately..
In addition to game compatibility, AMD also compared the HP Omnibook X flipbook equipped with the Ryzen 5 220 processor with the MacBook Neo. at the same time,It is pointed out that the former has larger system memory, touch screen functions and richer interfaces, and is 57% faster in multitasking and 38% faster in content creation.
However, this seemingly confident comparison soon aroused widespread doubts in the industry. The core issue is thatMacBook Neo has never focused on gaming functions in terms of product positioning. Using the gaming advantages of the Windows platform to attack a productivity thin and light notebook is essentially a misplaced comparison..
What’s even more interesting is that the Radeon 740M core display performance of the Ryzen 5220 processor is quite limited, and it cannot run most 3A masterpieces smoothly at all. The so-called “full compatibility” is only “can run”, not “can play well”.
In addition, AMD also deliberately avoided directly comparing the single-core performance and energy efficiency of the A18 Pro chip equipped with Ryzen 5220 and MacBook Neo, and instead focused on the operating system ecosystem. It was inevitably criticized for avoiding the important and neglecting the trivial.
