The PC industry does not have a direct competitor for Apple’s hit $600 MacBook Neo —at least not yet. Intel’s latest low-end chips may provide PC makers their best opportunity to strike back at Apple, but it won’t be easy. Apple’s competitors will need to do more than focus on pure budget performance to offer something as appealing as the Neo’s design. The MacBook Neo has “only” 8GB of unified memory and runs on an iPhone chip, the A18 Pro. Despite that, it’s become one of the hottest-selling laptops of the year. To punch back at Apple, Intel dropped details on its new Wildcat Lake processors earlier this month. They’re built on the same Intel 18a process node as the company’s Panther Lake chips, aka the latest Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chips you’ve probably seen in a ton of laptops already this year . First look at an Intel Wild Cat Lake laptop in the wild.…