MacBook Neo on an iPhone chip and Googlebook on Android: the phone eats the PC

A HackerNoon analysis of how in 2026 Apple shipped the $599 MacBook Neo with the A18 Pro chip from the iPhone 16 Pro, while Google launched the Googlebook laptop running Android instead of ChromeOS. Both companies independently moved smartphone hardware into laptops.

• The $599 MacBook Neo uses the same A18 Pro as the iPhone 16 Pro, with 8GB RAM and no fan
• Geekbench 6: about 3,541 single-core and 8,958 multi-core, beating the M1 Air
• The Googlebook shipped on October 4, 2026 with Android-based Googlebook OS instead of ChromeOS
• Both devices show phone-class silicon and software are now enough for a laptop