alt Hacker News> but the Neo may be proof that decades old macs could run Tahoe, and maybe as well or better than the Neo
The A18 Pro is going to out perform many "decades old" processors, which would you be referring to?
I wouldn't conflate "affordable" with "low-end" in terms of processing speed. Apple is able to get the price to this point because of decisions that the rest of the market did not make.
I think an old Mac Pro quad Xeon with 32gb of ram and an ssd of that era could do it. I agree that most cpus from 20 years ago could not. I understand that doing it and doing it well aren’t the same.