Apple toys with the competition - MacBook Neo offers more single-core performance than any mobile processor from AMD, Intel or Qualcomm

[Randy Hill]

Even if the Apple Neo has blazingly fast processing performance, it is Limited to 8GB RAM. Talk about building a Lamborghini with bicycle tyres.

And still runs photoshop and allows you to edit RAW files, etc. it's a low end Lambo, but still a Lambo.

[Randy Hill]

Citizen_not_Consumer, the Neo is using the full fledged iOS, can the same be said about the ACER Chromebook Plus Spin 514?

ChromeOs has Linux native environment, and I can run massive scientific numerical models compiled with open source GCC and GFortran compilers. In contrast, the black box macOS is limited to what Apple allows you to install. (no native open source Linux is supported on Mac hardware).

So for me ChromeOS is more "real" and open OS than the limited "blackbox" macOS.

MacOS is BSD Unix, comes with terminal app giving you access all the Unix command line tools, and run all the open source tools you want.