“Our Worst MacBook - Ever” — Apple’s Neo Fakebook exposed as a load of old junk

A Parody on the Apple’s Neo’s components—old antiquated junk, hits the mark in this hysterical take down of the Neo which despite its humour, is spot on in the facts. Shame he didn’t go as far as naming the real price of the Neo outside of the US - $1000 equivalent in the EU/UK and $1400 Brazil.

Tommo_UK

12 Mar 2026 — 4 min read

10 year old component design, an old iPhone chip and a misleading gaslighting US sticker price. That’s Where Apple Is Now - Gaslighting its way to profits. Watch the YouTube video!

No words necessary - this follows on from my in-depth critique of the Neo a couple of days ago and proves that while you can fool Apple fetish porn bloggers part of the time, your can’t fool all people, all of the time.

Watch below’s YouTube video

Too good to miss, and too well performed to dismiss. A corker of laughs.

With a special shout-out to forums troll “Jonny T” who for some ungodly reason - I’m told and sent copies of - seems to post all over the web solely to poke a stick at me. Thanks Jonny - there’s only one thing worse than being talked about, that’s not being talked about.

Meanwhile, Still Available, M4 Air 16GB/512GB real power for $100-200 more:

A MacBook Air M4, 16GB/512GB for $799.is still available on sale, brand new. The Neo is neither a great product or even close to “value for money” at $699 (adding in the extra for Touch ID). It is literally built oit of largely abandoned tech from an old parts bin thrown together.

My original review of the MacBook “Neo” here:

Just when you thought Apple couldn’t stoop and iterate even more, it scours its old parts bin to knock up a “MacBook” with a technical spec worthy of 2016, not 2026.

For now Apple remains: Iteration over Domination, safely use cheap old tech like Dell rather than innovating its way into the lower-end market.

**Cook’s Apple: “Iterate, don’t Dominate.”**

Sadly this is just a slow decline of Apple’s “can do “ into “shan’t do” as if some petulant child, churning out cheap tat failing to deliver anything genuinely interesting than the M1 chip in 2000 - and this MacBook does not run on an M-series which outperforms the A18Pro in real world use thanks to better internal bandwidth, but use a (relatively) ancient A-Series design core, 3 years old in design now and already superseded by the upcoming A20..