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The Macbook Neo is a great product, except the amount of RAM. At 8 GB with MacOS, you are constantly, and I mean, constantly swapping. It' just not enough. It's enough for Linux (although it lately has become bloated too; Fedora/Ubuntu need 4 GB for an equivalent experience), but MacOS needs a lot of tightening to get such a product out of the door and call it a day with so little RAM.
RAM, RAM, RAM. Only thing that matters on a computer.
I'd say that for Macbook Neo to make sense, it would require 12 GB of RAM. MacOS uses about 9 GB of RAM with a single Chrome tab open here. It used to be 6 GB I remember, it's now at around 9 GB (after a couple days of usage at least, not cold boot). Nothing else is open. 8 GB is just not enough, and I'm talking about normal internet usage here, not 4k video editing or Blender.
From the moment that it swaps, it's game over in terms of a good product. It doesn't matter if it's file swap or zram. Swap is swap. It just means that RAM is not enough. For normal internet usage, with MacOS, you need a minimum of 12 GB of RAM, not 8 GB. For 4k video editing you need 24 GB of RAM. It's how it is. Linux definitely needs a lot less, but it's getting big too lately.
> For normal internet usage, with MacOS,
> you need a minimum of 12 GB of RAM,
> not 8 GB.
Oh, thanks for that important information. I wonder how I manage to use the internet with just 8 GB RAM on my MB Air M2 though... 
