[seabrookmx]

I bought one just to have Mac around (I haven't daily driven MacOS since the PowerPC days) and to help debug MacOS specific dev environment issues my team has.

While I lean on VSCode remote SSH pretty heavily so you could argue I'm using it as more of a thin client, I've ended up using the Neo more than any of my other machines.

My Windows and Fedora machines have 2-4x the RAM but the Neo is just as responsive when juggling 20 Firefox tabs and a few other apps (mostly electron eg. Slack).

[viccis]

>While I lean on VSCode remote SSH pretty heavily so you could argue I'm using it as more of a thin client

I plan on getting one for this use case. I do most dev work on servers via either something like VSCode remote or just through Vim. Tailscale and <pick your own VNC type tool> make it easy to use my Mac Mini from anywhere. I can get the Neo on an educational discount, making it $500 and a pretty easy choice.

A while back I went into an Apple Store and opened up as many huge applications (Logic Pro, etc.) and like 50 browser tabs and the Neo still worked fine. I think it will be a good thin client.

[seabrookmx]

Yeah I think with how efficient MacOS's memory compression is, the swap works _really_ well. You can have a lot of things open, as long as those things aren't active/too heavy it all works smoothly.

Popping open Activity Monitor, when I have a lot open my swapfile regularly hits 6GB and memory pressure is yellow, but I'd have no idea otherwise.

Not to say the rumoured 12GB in the next Neo wouldn't be better, but for the price you can't go wrong.