alt Hacker NewsIt 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.