Gavin Anderegg
Periodic reminder that the cloud is just some else’s (often shared, expensive, and slow to spin up) computer. The MacBook Neo does a surprisingly good job in this big data benchmark. https://duckdb.org/2026/03/11/big-data-on-the-cheapest-macbook
Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook

How does the latest entry-level MacBook perform on database workloads? We benchmarked it using ClickBench and TPC-DS SF300. We found that it could complete both workloads, sometimes with surprisingly good results.

DuckDB
Mar 13 at 9:58amMona for iPad