“Big data” doesn’t have a 5gb memory cap.

I’m guessing so many devs started out on 32gb MacBooks that the NEO seems underpowered. but it wasn’t too long ago that 8gb, 1500mb/sec IO & so many cores was an elite machine.

I did a lot of dev work on a glorified eePC Chromebook when my laptop was damaged. You don’t need a lot of ram to run a terminal.

I’m hoping NEO resets the baseline testing environment so developers get back to shipping software that doesn’t monopolize resources. “Plays nice with others” should be part of the software developer’s creed.