Unsurprising discovery -- having a supercomputer on your lap changes the way you approach certain computing problems. https://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2023/12/duck.html
Data Science is Getting Ducky

For a long time, a big constituency of users of PostGIS has been people with large data analytics problems that crush their desktop GIS systems. Or people who similarly find that their geospatial problems are too large to run in R. Or Python. These are data scientists or adjacent people. And when they ran into those problems, the first course of action would be to move the data and parts of th...

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@pwramsey So to better understand, what is fast on this new laptop ? GPU ?
@sylvainp Very. many cores, fast memory, GPUs, the whole kit, it's a Macbook Pro. And today's laptop beast is tomorrow's standard issue.
@pwramsey But 20min vs 45s surprise me. How could it be that improvement ... Even on an old i7-8550U it doesn't take 20 minutes to build geos but around 4 minutes. Your previous laptop was really old ^^