[edg5000]

Is the MacBook Neo like my Xiaomi phone: fully locked down; no way to put custom software on it? That would be bad. My laptop is the last bastion of control left.

[saispas]

It's a fully functional MacOS computer: you install the same software on it that you can any Mac laptop. That means it will run third-part software.

(Obviously, it won't run some heavy duty software as quickly as a fully-specced MacBook Pro would, but it will still run it.)