Posted by bcye 6 hours ago
My good old LG Gram (from 2017? 2015? don't even remember) already had 24 GB of RAM. That was 10 years ago.
A decade later I cannot see myself being a laptop with 1/3rd the mem.
If it didn't, Apple has other laptops today with more RAM.
2025-09-08 : "Big Data on the Move: DuckDB on the Framework Laptop 13"
"TL;DR: We put DuckDB through its paces on a 12-core ultrabook with 128 GB RAM, running TPC-H queries up to SF10,000."
https://duckdb.org/2025/09/08/duckdb-on-the-framework-laptop...
The “isn’t just” part is a dead giveaway almost always.
It would be a surprise if more than 0.1% of Macbook Neo users have even heard of DuckDB.
Which means that this article is probably just riding the hype.
People buy Macbook Neo because they "just need a laptop" or are budget conscious.
I imagine a student would get their hands wet with Postgre before looking at DuckDB or similar.
It would be a surprise if they do heavy workloads with DuckDB. In which case it's definitely worth investing in a more powerful computer.
Also there are countless reports of bricked M1 8GB MacBook Airs that are bricked because the SSD used up it's write cycles
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/23/m1-mac-users-report-exc...
If Apple would build their laptops serviceable like ThinkPads I would buy one today.
They’ve slowly been moving towards making it easier to repair individual broken parts. I’m very happy to see that a new keyboard doesn’t require replacing the entire top case. That was just crazy.