I think only 16Gb of RAM, though. And it needs a chunk of that to run the OS and “finder”.

I also think that if this were a feasible use case, apple would promote it. They are clearly positioning this headset as adjacent to the dev space, based on price and how they previewed it. And Apple is one of those companies that if you find yourself swimming upstream against how they want you to use it… it might be reason to find a different platform.

The M2 is a category of chip, not a specific model.

They'll likely need to put something comparable to the iPad M2 in there to manage heat. That iPad M2 has about 1/3 the performance of my MBP M2.

Add in the fact that you're rendering a spatial world and you quickly have a lot of resources tied up.

The M2 is a lineup of chips with a range of specs (much like i3, i5, i7, i9 lineups). The M2 that powers the iPad is 1/3 the performance of the M2 in my MBP. I suspect the Vision Pro's M2 will be somewhere in the middle to manage heat and battery life. While the Vision Pro M2 can technically "run it", it will still run faster on a dedicated external machine that can handle the heat and power better.

Add in the need to render a very large virtual space and you end up with a lot of capacity being used by default. That's likely fine for "iPad like tasks" (web-browsing, email, messaging), but it seems insufficient for anything requiring processing or memory.