We're starting to see some PC makers respond to Apple's MacBook Neo

Chuwi’s $449 “Unibook,” a blessedly nondescript laptop that looks good on paper but may or may not work out in real life. Credit: Chuwi Chuwi’s $449 “Unibook,” a blessedly nondescript laptop that looks good on paper but may or may not work out in real life. Credit: Chuwi Chinese electronics manufacturer Chuwi contacted Ars about one aggressively priced Wildcat Lake laptop, a device called the “ UniBook ” with a Core 3 304 processor, a 14-inch 1200p IPS display, a backlit keyboard, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and more ports than the MacBook Neo, for an advertised price of $449. The spec sheet tells us nothing about how this laptop will feel to use, how it will hold up over time, or its US availability (a handful of Chuwi devices are available through Amazon, and the company sells some through its online store ). But something with roughly these specs at around this price is what we’d like to see in true purpose-built MacBook Neo competitors from the PC companies. A little help from Intel? Along with several of these Wildcat Lake systems, Intel’s Chinese arm recently announced something called “Project Firefly.” Firefly appears to be an Intel initiative to reduce costs and manufacturing complexity by providing PC makers with more reference designs. …