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Re:Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook by _fzslm on Thursday March 12, 2026 @08:56PM (#47359418)
My substantially more privileged, but somewhat equivalent experience, was doing mobile app development, Docker, linux VMs, UI design, and finding out about hacker news on an 11 inch MacBook Air with 4gb of RAM.

i have a computer that benchmarks literally 10x faster and with 32x the amount of RAM, but i miss that little thing that helped me build my career from nothing

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Re:Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook by joshmn on Thursday March 12, 2026 @09:43PM (#47359729)
My dad spun up my Pentium Deschutes (400MHz!) machine the other day. Same hard drive from when I was 10 years old. “clouds.psd” was on the desktop.

I still remember retiring that computer. The first thing I did when I got my Pentium IV chip a year later was download Macromedia Dreamweaver. Did me well.

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