I had long been weary of juggling VMWare guests' RAM consumption on my MacBook Pro, but I held out for a modern system with more RAM (whether MacBook Pro or upd

I had long been weary of juggling VMWare guests' RAM consumption on my MacBook Pro, but I held out for a modern system with more RAM (whether MacBook Pro or updated Mac Pro), until the most recent refresh. Two months ago, I purchased a Linux workstation with a modest 128 GiB RAM, and have barely touched my laptop since. In 2005, I bought a quad-core Opteron workstation with 16 GiB RAM. That Apple wouldn't offer anything substantially more powerful in a laptop form factor a dozen years later boggles the mind. Granted, my use case may be atypical (lots of jemalloc portability development/testing), but between the anemic hardware options and the de-emphasis of developer products, I'm sufficiently disenfranchised at this point that even after working at Apple on the operating system (~10.1-10.4 range) and then using it ever since, I'm not personally interested anymore in what Apple does next.