It occurs to me that there is near zero overlap between people who use a Macbook Neo and people who run DuckDB locally.

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.

Trying DuckDB on lower-end Macbooks does show you dont need much muscle for moderate-size analytics. Long term it isnt cost-effective compared to budget laptops but its super simple for self-contained pipelines. The thing is 8GB RAM leaves you stuck once your data actually grows past the marketing demo.

	▲	NetMageSCW 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Can’t give up and admit that 8GB of RAM is enough, can you?
	▲	g947o 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think you completely missed the point. 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.