Benchmarks for the new MacBook Neo surfaced today, and unsurprisingly, CPU performance is almost identical to the iPhone 16 Pro. The MacBook Neo uses the same 6-core A18 Pro chip that was first introduced in the iPhone 16 Pro, but it has one fewer GPU core. The MacBook Neo earned a single-core score of 3461 and a multi-core score of 8668, along with a Metal score of 31286.
I was considering ann old M1 Mac for iOS development (current machine is an early 2015) but this might tip me over and get this instead.
The 8 GB RAM aren’t much if you run iOS simulators.