HI Ronald. I am curious what you use your Mac for? I have a friend who uses Mac mini and he has 16 gb ram and is a hard core developer and also does a bit of Devopps. He is absolutely fine with it. Even I do engineering day in and day out with around 5 to 7 Chrome tabs, 5 safari tabs, VSCode with thousands of lines of code and 3 terminals running a backend, a frontend and the database server. I do docker builds moderately. Mine is a 16 gb m3 Mac air and it does absolutely fine, in fact much faster than my Intel I9 with Ubuntu. Having said that, Neo won’t even come near to what I can do on a Mac air and for even higher requirements a 24 GB MacBook Pro would be a must. So it all comes down to what you want to do. Neo as I see from overall response is great for students or regular office work, presentation, sheets and all. It is great if you are going to be on the web all the time and use a lot of cloud based software services. Regards.
> On 18 Mar 2026, at 12:43 AM, 'RvR' via MacVisionaries > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I won't go near a Neo. My Mini M4 Pro with 24 gb ram even feels slufggish at > times, let alone a 8gig machine on an almost 2 year old iPhone chip. > The performance is equal to the five year old M1 machines at best. The Neo is > good at single core but multi core it disappoints. > And even if you can live with it at this moment, it's doubtful you will enjoy > it for a long time. The Neo has the absolute minimum tech specs and is not > very futureproof. > If you want to use your Mac for at least 5 years to come, you really need 16 > gb of ram. > > best, > Ronald > >> Op 16 mrt 2026, om 02:36 heeft Shai <[email protected]> het volgende >> geschreven: >> >> Hello everyone, >> I’m wondering if anyone on the list has had the opportunity to evaluate the >> MacBook Neo. I’m curious how well it performs with VoiceOver and other macOS >> accessibility tools in real-world use. >> Specifically, I’d be interested to know whether the Neo feels smooth and >> responsive when using VoiceOver, navigating the system, and running typical >> productivity apps. Do the specs seem sufficient for accessibility workflows, >> or would you recommend opting for a more robust MacBook model instead? >> Any experiences, impressions, or recommendations would be greatly >> appreciated. >> Thanks very much, >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> and your owner is Cara Quinn - you >> can reach Cara at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/010a01dcb4e5%244f0e4d00%24ed2ae700%24%40gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/010a01dcb4e5%244f0e4d00%24ed2ae700%24%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/7A029BCD-1D48-4047-B811-0A68A206589F%40xs4all.nl > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/7A029BCD-1D48-4047-B811-0A68A206589F%40xs4all.nl?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/7A25DF33-BEEA-424D-A706-55AF15F9CFB7%40gmail.com.
