Support for Photoshop and Lightroom with Mac Neo?

I haven’t used the MacBook Neo yet, but I’ve seen some of those YouTube reviews.

Technically, the MacBook Neo currently meets the absolute rock bottom system requirements for both Photoshop and Lightroom: 8GB unified memory. That means both applications will run. However, because it’s already barely meeting the minimum system requirements, in my opinion that puts the Neo at risk of falling below future system requirements if Adobe raises them in future versions, including the next one.

Personally, I think the MacBook Neo should work well as a travel machine. As long as you understand a few things:

• The possibility that the Neo’s service life might be significantly shorter than a used 16GB MacBook Air, if Photoshop/Lightroom system requirements go up in any future version.
• The risk that the 256GB of internal storage in the base model might be too little if certain cache/temporary files get too large, such as the Photoshop scratch file, the Lightroom local storage cache, or the Lightroom Classic previews cache or lrdata file. You may need to attach an external SSD. This might depend on how much you shoot on a trip; for example, my cameras have 128GB cards in them and so each card alone already equals half the total storage of a MacBook Neo. But the Neo has much less than 256GB free after installing macOS and applications. So think about whether 512GB might be better.
• The Neo might be very slow for any GPU-intensive or batch operations, but you might not care about that when traveling. 

If Apple upgrades the next version of the MacBook Neo using a later processor like the A19 that supports more unified memory, it may become more future-proof. So if waiting is an option, it’s a good option.