The low RAM of the Macbook Neo is degrading its SSD: Up to 900 GB written in 3 hours for virtual memory

He MacBook Neo It hit the market last March 2026 as the apple company’s cheapest laptop. However, it seems that its base configuration with only 8 GB of RAM It could pose a serious problem for the durability of the equipment, and more specifically for its SSD.

According to the tests carried out by the UFD Tech channel, the problem is that, by running out of available RAM as soon as several applications are executed, the operating system makes use of the virtual memory, creating and using the paging or swap system on the SSD.

Having so little RAM, the Macbook Neo writes up to 900 GB per hour on its SSD for virtual memory

This strategy, present in most operating systems, allows you to expand the amount of available memory, although the speed of virtual memory is much slower than real RAM. In any case, it seems that macOS is especially aggressivewriting almost 900 GB of paging data on the SSD in just three hours. And that with moderate use of Chrome, Whatsapp and Discord.

Although this mainly affects the SSD and its durability, the main problem is that The Macbook Neo has this piece soldered on the motherboardso it is not possible to replace it easily.

According to the tests carried out, it is estimated that the 256 GB and 512 GB SSDs would have a durability of 414 TB written and 1,521 TB written. At 300 GB per hour, we would have the end of the 256 GB SSD in about 57 and a half days.

With about 900 GB of data in three hours, in a normal work day we would have 2.4 TB written, which means that in a month, with 5 days of weekly use, we would end up with almost 53 TB of data written only for virtual memory. That is to say, that our Macbook Neo would say goodbye to us in about 8 months.

The use of the laptop was not particularly intensive, although it must be taken into account that Google’s Chrome browser is famous for its high consumption of RAM memory.