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Big data on the cheapest MacBook

by Gábor Szárnyas duckdb.org published 2026-03-11

How does the latest entry-level MacBook perform on database workloads? We benchmarked it using ClickBench and TPC-DS SF300. We found that it could complete both workloads, sometimes with surprisingly good results.

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