Despite hardware limits, Parallels supports running Windows on MacBook Neo

"8GB unified memory is the minimum practical configuration."

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All of the discussions of the Neo mention that's it's good for "light weight computing" or words to that effect, but I think it's worth mentioning that while so called light weight computing has remain relatively fixed over the last 10-15 years (web browsing, streaming content, email, office productivity apps, a little audio or video editing, photo editing and management, etc) computational power has skyrocketed (particularly on the Mac). Which is to say, for the vast majority of things that most people do with a laptop, the Neo isn't compromised at all. Not, "accept compromises to spend less", not "OK till it's really really not", but not ever. The chip and memory in the Neo outperform top of the line machines from just a few years ago, and the fact is in that few years the needs of the average user really haven't changed. It's not like everyone has taken to doing a lot of 4k video editing and running simulations and manipulating billion polygon 3D models-- they're still just doing the list of things above. Saying "its good if you just need to do x but if you also need to do y you should consider stepping up" is true of every computer made save the top 1%, and in the Neo's case x is pretty much everything that most people do.