As a Romanian web dev, my 8-y-o laptop has a 4-core CPU, 12GB RAM, and 256GB of SSD space.

The laptop cost about 110% of my monthly entry-level salary.

Romania is significantly better developed and more affluent than most of the world. My similarly aged laptop had much worse hardware than what you're describing and cost 200%+ of my old entry-level salary. (I don't use laptops anymore.)

GitHub CI also has much better network connectivity (both speed and especially ping) compared to most parts of my country.

> Good for Americans (or first-world citizens)

By your logic poor people actually have more money to spend on renting cloud services.

That's often the case, and it's a reason why being poor can be expensive. Poor people are more likely to rent the capital they need to work.

In my country I've seen people rent cars, rent a smartphone, and literally rent someone else's Uber account just to work as a driver.

If Mighty had developed their product for ancient Windows laptops instead of Macs, they would have had millions of customers. It still wouldn't be profitable, because they'd be very poor customers.

Mighty? (Sorry, it's impossible to Google-search that term.)

Mighty is (was?) a company that made a cloud service that let you use a Chrome extension to remote into a powerful computer so that you could have hundreds of tabs open without slowing down your computer.

Sounds silly, but suppose you are a starving artist whose ancient laptop can't even run Photoshop. It might make sense to remote into a powerful computer that can run Google Chrome, then from that computer use a web-based Photoshop replacement like Figma.

Unfortunately the people at Mighty chose to focus on Mac users, because they had to impress wealthy investors to get them to invest, and those investors are Mac users.

https://www.mightyapp.com/

That is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while. I have a Mac, I may try it.