MacBook Neo and developing for Apple Vision Pro (visionOS)

I ordered a MacBook Neo for my kids and set up the latest Xcode beta to try out the developer experience for visionOS on this new machine.

Here are my basic results compiling a template project for visionOS which includes an Immersive Scene:

All of these tests were using Xcode 26.4 beta 3

Device	Mac Virtual Display	Compile Time (seconds)
MacBook M4 Air	No	22.5
MacBook Pro M1 Max	No	26
MacBook Neo	No	157.5
MacBook Neo	Yes	372.5

I would say the MacBook Neo does a fine job for everything, and if this is your first Mac. At $499 for education, I'm very pleased that this can handle running the visionOS simulator and everything else. Happy coding!