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I can confirm from personal experience that the Neo slaps and your perspective is uninformed.

It's not just a question of experience though. The Neo can be perfectly sufficient for you right now but that doesn't change the fact that Apple obsoletes devices based on RAM.

E.g., the iPhone 15, released 3 years ago, doesn't get Apple Intelligence because it has just 6GB of RAM.

I wouldn't buy a device that is already at the very lowest end of supported hardware the day it's released. It could cut the years of meaningful OS upgrades by half or perhaps even by two thirds.

It's uneconomical.

I've already got my money's worth out of my Neo, so I'm not stressed.

You would have gotten your money's worth out of an Air as well, but it would get support for many more years.

Yeah I've got one of those too...

>doesn't get Apple Intelligence because it has just 6GB of RAM.

This sounds like a feature to me: Apple should provide a upgrade path that disables AI for older hardware that can't run it, and thus not download the models.

You only learn after the fact which features you're not getting though. It's not an informed a choice.

My first Macbook was an M1 with almost exactly those specs and it definitely was not enough, even back then.

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