What are you even doing? I have refurbished workstation from 2016 (xeon with 32gig ram for 200usd) and the cheapest M1 air. And i am sitting here thinking we went past of what people need for personal/work computer because i can easily do my work on it and would get nothing from faster machines. Yes i dont compile big codebases (where i assume it done outside of my system anyway) but i just wonder what are the HW companies going to do to keep people upgrading their machines.
I switched from an i7 1065g7, 32GB RAM to an M2 Pro (10 CPU cores), 32GB RAM.
It makes a huge difference to me.
Android Studio and Gradle builds are running a lot faster now.
Before about 2-3 minutes, now less than a minute.
My company builds an Android SDK for payments.
For me the end is not reached and I'm looking forward to an upgrade in 3-5 years.
We'll find a way to use up what they can provide :-)
With 64GB ram and our infrastructure defined with NixOS, I find myself building and spinning it up locally (in test mode) as part of working on it. Having ~10 VMs running locally with 2-3 GB of ram each quickly adds up.
It feels a little dirty, but it's really nice to have the possibility. :-)
