Benchmarks show MacBook Neo rivaling more powerful cloud servers in database workloads<div class="feat-image">

</div><p>In an interesting test, DuckDB’s Gábor Szárnyas compared the 512GB MacBook Neo with a range of cloud servers to see how Apple’s new entry-level laptop performs on heavy database workloads. Here’s how it did.</p>
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Benchmarks show MacBook Neo rivaling more powerful cloud servers in database workloads