‘We undercalled the level of enthusiasm’: Apple’s Tim Cook says supply is constrained for the MacBook Neo, but ‘we could not be happier with how things are going at the moment’

The MacBook Neo is an impressive machine in many respects. Beyond the fact that it starts at $599 and makes for a very good productivity laptop (although not so much for gaming), the cheap-but-cheerful machine’s popularity appears to have taken even Apple by surprise. In the Q&A section of the company’s recent Q2 2026 earnings…

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A treehouse bundle in WoW costs a whopping $75, and while I know exactly who Blizzard’s made it for, that doesn’t mean I feel good about it

World of Warcraft’s player housing feature is great—the microtransactions involved? Not so much. To be clear: There’s a huge list of decor you can get in the game without paying anything other than your usual subscription, and the system has enough freedom that you can absolutely build your own treehouse, if you wanted. But it…

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Steam Deck restocks or a pile of Steam Frames and Machines? Either way, Valve’s been importing a whole heap of ‘game consoles’

With the vast majority of PC components, laptops, handheld devices and full-blown consoles all made in China and various SE Asian countries, the fact that the biggest gaming vendors regularly import stuff is hardly newsworthy. But when the vendor in question is Valve, and the items being shipped over are registered as ‘games consoles’, that…

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