latest Apple's MacBook Neo is reportedly close to selling out which has got me thinking about why we can't have more simple and affordable gaming PCs like the Steam Deck

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Subscribe to our newsletter Apple's new MacBook Neo is reportedly selling so well that the company may soon run out of A18 Pro chips to stick in it.

Which has got me thinking: Why can't we have more similarly simple but appealing and affordable PC gaming devices? Ya know, like the Steam Deck?Tim Culpan, a tech journalist based in Taipei, Taiwan, says his sources are telling him that sales of the MacBook Neo have surpassed Apple's expectations to the point of creating a "massive dilemma."That dilemma is centred on the A18 Pro chip at the heart of the Neo.

Famously, it's basically just an iPhone chip.

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But Cuplan's basic contention is that Apple had only planned to make so many MacBook Neo, which was intended to essentially be built using leftover A18 Pros.

Apparently, the plan was to sell around five to six million units.

In the medium term, Apple intended to switch the Neo to the newer A19 chip ## Editor's Note The gaming community will surely have mixed reactions to this news. Source: [PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-laptops/apples-macbook-neo-is-reportedly-close-to-selling-out-which-has-got-me-thinking-about-why-we-cant-have-more-simple-and-affordable-gaming-pcs-like-the-steam-deck/)